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via The ultrasound that saved a baby girl’s life - guest post by Dr Linda M. Lee at KevinMD.com. Originally posted at Dr. Linda’s Life Lessons
“We already have two girls at home and we want a son. We have too many girls.” My eyes welled with tears as I thought of the fate of [...]

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55-year-old man with swelling in the right groin.
Ultrasonography was done.
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What is the diagnosis?
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Answer: Here.
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via Gruntdoc & EETimes.com - Handheld ultrasound gets FDA approval.

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Startup Signostics got approval Tuesday (May 19) from the U.S. Food and Drug Administration to ship what it claims is the world’s smallest ultrasound device. The company describes its pocket-sized, half-pound Signos that sells for about $4,000 as a visual stethoscope and hopes it will [...]

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via AuntMinnie.com: Obesity, Diabetes interfere with ultrasound detection of fetal anomalies. [Free Registration required. Emphases mine]

The ability to identify major fetal anomalies by ultrasonography is reduced in pregnant women who are obese or diabetic, according to researchers at the University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center in Dallas. “It was our intention to evaluate whether fetuses [...]

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via medGadget: Mobile Clinical Imaging On a Smart Phone. (h/t sandsurf & fnyc)

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Engineers at Washington University in St. Louis adapted a small ultrasound prove to interface with a Microsoft Windows mobile smartphone. Although the screen may be too small to diagnose anything properly, it is thought the concept will be used to scan a [...]

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Just some cool pictures of a very common condition. For a change.
Ultrasonogram done for a patient with colicky right sided abdominal pain showed right hydroureteronephrosis secondary to a calculus impacted at the ueretero-vesical junction.
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Transverse ultrasonogram of the urinary bladder with Power Doppler shows an [...]

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to radiologists & hospitals in India…
THINK TWICE
BEFORE BUYING ULTRASOUND SCANNERS
FROM A FAMOUS GERMAN COMPANY!!
Their equipment may be good, but the reliability is questionable compared to equivalent American & Japanese ultrasound scanners.
Read the fine print in their service contract.
If possible, insist on and get a 2 or 3 year extended warranty / [...]

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Ultrasound and MRI preferable to CT in diagnosis of IBD, analysis suggests | MRI Clinical | medicexchange.

US researchers conducted a meta-analysis of 33 prospective studies assessing these techniques which used histopathology, ileocolonoscopy, and/or intraoperative findings as the reference standard.
The authors said: “Because of the relapsing nature of IBD and the young age at which it [...]