We all know that there are artifacts on just about every ultrasound image we look at. The physics of the sound waves interacting with tissues is complicated! But many of these artifacts need to be recognized and acknowledged so that you can move on with interpreting the images. The mirror image artifact is one that [...]
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Last week I wrote about the signs of chronic renal disease in cats. Ultrasound often shows small kidneys that may be irregular, have poor corticomedullary distinction, mineralization or pyelectasia. We see these changes commonly in cats with no or minimal clinical or biochemical signs of renal disease, and they stay quite stable. But acute decompensations [...]
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