Abdominal Ultrasound – Creekside Veterinary Hospital & Referral Center

See Beneath The Surface

Abdominal ultrasounds saves lives.

Ultrasound technology allows doctors to “see” inside a patient without resorting to surgery. Performed by a DVM, this allows for guided sampling and some treatments. A transmitter sends high-frequency sound waves into the body, where they bounce off the different tissues and organs to produce a distinctive pattern of echoes. The receiver “hears” the returning echo pattern and forwards it to a computer, which translates the image onto the ultrasound machine’s screen.

Abdominal Ultrasound

Ultrasound's Usefulness

As an imaging tool, abdominal ultrasounds are generally warranted for patients afflicted with: chronic or acute abdominal pain, abdominal trauma, an obvious or suspected abdominal mass, symptoms of liver disease, pancreatic disease, gallstones, spleen and Kidney disease, enlarged prostate and urinary blockage.

Ultrasound technology can also be used to guide needle placement, which allows the doctor to take cytology or biopsy samples of the organ of interest. The samples that were collected are packaged and sent to a specialist to read.