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Kidney ultrasound
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A kidney ultrasound is an imaging study that uses sound waves to create pictures of the kidneys and bladder. Picture those waves being turned into a view of the structures inside the body: that is the basic idea behind the technique.
A kidney ultrasound does not use ionizing radiation. Even so, the image is only one part of the study. By itself, it is not a diagnosis and does not automatically answer every clinical question.
In brief
A kidney ultrasound is an imaging study that uses sound waves to produce images of the kidneys and bladder. The resulting image is not, by itself, a diagnosis.
A kidney ultrasound does not use ionizing radiation. The absence of radiation does not mean that a single image can answer every clinical question on its own.
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- RadiologyInfo.org, American College of Radiology y Radiological Society of North AmericaRenal UltrasoundPublished
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