Hello,

I have a few general questions focusing on the urinary bladder region.

I have had several recheck urinary bladder ultrasounds lately where I have not seen any pathology.  I was checking to see/try to verify if there was a mass/growth.

My questions are:

In general, how frequent can a significant UTI look like a bladder wall mass…yet within a week of antibiotics look perfectly normal?

Should we be using the linear probe some when we think there is urinary bladder pathology?

Hello,

I have a few general questions focusing on the urinary bladder region.

I have had several recheck urinary bladder ultrasounds lately where I have not seen any pathology.  I was checking to see/try to verify if there was a mass/growth.

My questions are:

In general, how frequent can a significant UTI look like a bladder wall mass…yet within a week of antibiotics look perfectly normal?

Should we be using the linear probe some when we think there is urinary bladder pathology?

With these recent cases I used the linear probe as well, and scanned about every angel of the urinary tract that was possible.  I included power doppler over the ureteral jets as well.  I will see if I can post what I think is a pretty neat clip.

Regarding including ureteral jets with urinary bladder scans…I could only come up with a few reasons to include trying to visualize these with power doppler:

Looking for ectopic ureters, ureteroceles, seeing if a mass is involving/obstructing a ureter, and maybe to see there is debris in the urine.

Thanks