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What else can look like lots of small kidney stones in ultrasound?

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Dr. Kathy Robinson answered

Calcifications: Calcifications in blood vessels can sometimes look like kidney stones. If your doctors are unclear about whether or not you have kidney stones they may want to do a CT scan which is a better test than US for detecting and diagnosing kidney stones.

Dr Lundell and another doctor agreed

Answered 6/2/2015

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A member asked:

What else can look like lots of small kidney stones in ultrasound?

A doctor has provided 1 answer

Dr. Kathy Robinson answered

Dr Lundell and another doctor agreed

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