An ultrasound uses high-frequency sound waves and a monitor to create images of the blood vessels, tissues and organs in the abdomen. Although it’s considered the “gold standard” for diagnosing an ...

Ultrasound scans are safe and painless. An abdominal ultrasound uses sound waves to make images of the abdomen (belly). An ultrasound machine sends sound waves into the abdominal area and images are ...

Introduction An abdominal ultrasound scan (AUSS) is widely recommended in national ... 179 (57.6%) patients had simple fatty infiltration of the liver. 22 (7%) had confirmatory radiological features ...

A 72 year old man presented with abdominal and back pain. While in the emergency department he collapsed and the ultrasound scan in the resuscitation room demonstrated a 7 cm aneurysm. He was ...

No. 7, Chung-Shan South Road, Taipei, 100, Taiwan; chulintsai{at}ntu.edu.tw Ring down artefacts are sometimes found when emergency physicians perform abdominal ultrasound to differentiate between ...