What techniques do you find most effective for visualization of rectal disease with intestinal ultrasound?
Answer from: at Academic Institution
I am not sure that this is the correct use of "intestinal ultrasound". There is the transabdominal ultrasound technique that is taught to gastroenterologists who can use it at point of care for their UC and CD patients to assess the small bowel and the colon. If you want to specifically look at the ...
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at Washington University School of Medicine I agree with @Sunanda V. Kane that intestinal ultr...
The rectum can be a bit more difficult to evaluate on abdominal intestinal ultrasound. However, if the patient has a full (or at least not empty) bladder, you can use that as your guide to look below it, and based on if they are male or female, the prostate or uterus, respectively, should be underne...
I agree with @Sunanda V. Kane that intestinal ultr...