The ultrasonic features of an unusual cholesterol gallstone.
We describe a cholesterol gallstone with an unusual macroscopic appearance and only mild acoustic shadowing on ultrasonography with a 3.5 MHz transducer used in vivo; there was greater shadowing using 5.0 and 7.5 Mhz transducters in vitro.
Slomic
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AM
Department of Radiology, Highland View Regional Hospital, Amherst, Nova Scotia.
Ferguson
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D002769:Cholelithiasis / Q000175:diagnosis*; D002784:Cholesterol / Q000032:analysis; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D014463:Ultrasonography
D002784:Cholesterol