Blather

 

https://medpix.nlm.nih.gov/case?id=acc486ab-f2da-4225-a8b4-5fd43276df23

My question for Google was, can an Ultrasound detect (bad) features on organs, or is it mostly blind as a bat except for black-and-white shapes?
This picture (above) came up, about gastrinomas being invisible. Like planets you can't see, only guess at.
What hope do patients of ordinary medical personnel have?
       Several months ago,
I wrote (prolly erased) that anomalies as big as your fist could probably be seen

 ("wth is that?"), but anything smaller might get ignored (Have you ever seen an ultrasound?)

But I would not know which is prolly why I erased it.

The teaser-picture below doesn't actually exist on the website https://www.radiologyinfo.org/en/info/abdominus, but I might have missed it.

Like looking at soup through a frosted bowl

A very cool website using MUCH fancier techniques (They stuck a hose with a needle down a lady's throat) is still unreadable but has a lot more features to wonder about.

https://radiopaedia.org/cases/pancreatic-neuroendocrine-tumor-gastrinoma-1

Google has a kind of an infomercial for EUS as opposed to the wimpy standard (hoary, deprecated, burned out, slap-happy) Ultrasound at https://www.google.com/search?q=ultrasound+gastrinoma&oq=ultrasound+gastrinoma

But guess which one *I* will get? 

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Just so you know,

Gas (that bloaty-feeling) interferes with ordinary ultrasounds, as well as fat tissue.

I'm &^%$# dead.

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Some pictures of ultrasounds are here. As a layman I'd say, if everything is gray, you're fine, it's those black holes framed in white halos you need to worry about.

But it's like trying to learn greek in an hour.

Left: Cute dog panting.
Right-middle: wise man humphing (humph!)
Far-right: abstract (of a cat scheming)

Nice lady who knows where to look, biggie red mushrooms .

Pain is a nice flag you can point to, but I wonder if PAD masks pain. (bah, only a thought)