The ultrasound journal
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The ultrasound journal · Jun 2021
A retrospective evaluation of point of care ultrasound for acute cholecystitis in a tertiary academic hospital setting.
In 2008 the Council of Emergency Medicine Residency Directors delineated consensus recommendations for training in biliary ultrasound for the "detection of biliary pathology". ⋯ ECUS can be beneficial in ruling out acute cholecystitis, but lacks the test characteristics to be diagnostic for acute cholecystitis.