The pace at which technical innovations are making in roads into our day to day lives, it comes as no surprise that a highly specialized field such as Medicine would wish to be the prime beneficiary since it deals with life and…death. Each day brings us closer to implementing a more focused approach to deal effectively with the challenges of newer disease spectrums and, the desire for quicker, easier, non-messy approach becomes an inevitable pre-requisite. Out of all the advancements, the tremendous pace at which Ultrasound has risen from strength to strength can only be marveled.
It became an indispensable investigative tool for most of the disease presentations except in bones and joints since ultrasound remains impervious to dense bony cortex... so it was assumed. To combat this short coming , other cross-sectional modalities such as CT, MRI evolved to bring life…
