In adults, a ≥10 mm difference in the lengths of the right and left kidneys on ultrasound is considered predictive of renal pathology. Khazaei et al. sought to determine a cutoff point at which ...

In addition certain renal diseases require a biopsy for diagnosis ... An advantage of this technique is that an ultrasound probe may be placed through the trocar directly onto the kidney to help guide ...

doctors thread a small catheter or tube through blood vessels to reach the kidneys and then beam in ultrasound or radiofrequency energy. Those pulses pass through the renal arteries to selectively ...

Patients experience debilitating pain when kidney stones become stuck in the urinary tract. A relatively new ultrasound probe procedure has the highest success rate for breaking down kidney stones ...

Chen Wang, Ph.D., a postdoctoral researcher at the University of Oklahoma, has been awarded a fellowship from the Prevent Cancer Foundation to develop an optical coherence tomography (OCT) probe for ...

Chen Wang receives a fellowship for research on improving kidney cancer diagnostics using an OCT probe at the University of Oklahoma.