A kidney ultrasound may be performed to assist in placement of needles used to biopsy (obtain a tissue sample) the kidneys , to drain fluid from a cyst or abscess, or to place a drainage tube. This ...

Kidney cancer is one of the most common cancers worldwide. The major types of malignant renal tumors are renal cell carcinoma and urothelial carcinoma. Although the majority of renal tumors are ...

Pushing kidney stones with ultrasound As many as 50% of patients who have kidney stones removed surgically still have small fragments remaining in the kidneys afterward. Of those patients, about 25% ...

Kidney stone symptoms include severe, sharp pain in the back or side, ... But your doctor may ask you to drink a lot of water and not go to the bathroom right before a kidney ultrasound.

Introduction: The aim of our study was to describe the clinical presentation and ultrasonographic features of renal cysts at the Donka National Hemodialysis Center. Material and Methods: This was a ...

From May 2021 to May 2022, a total of 304 children underwent renal point-of-care ultrasound (POCUS) conducted by pediatric residents. Out of these, 77 infants (53 boys, 24 girls; mean age 6.5 months, ...

A kidney ultrasound is a safe and non-invasive diagnostic test that uses sound waves to create images of your kidneys. Unlike X-rays, ultrasounds don’t use radiation, ...

Based on 2D ultrasound, Yang et al. developed a framework which was combined with nonlocal total variation image denoising, distance regularized level set evolution, and shape element for kidney ...

A research team at Postech (Pohang University of Science and Technology) has solved the mystery of kidney diseases using ultrafast ultrasound that captures 1,000 images in just one second. The ...