Kidney Stone Not Visible Ultrasound. She had numerous scans and no reason was ever found but she was extremely ill for quite a while and was convinced she had cancer because there could be no other reason. Most scientist agree on the fact that ultrasound simply is not sufficient enough to detect very small kidney stones.
My mum had this last year lasted for about 12 months. She had numerous scans and no reason was ever found but she was extremely ill for quite a while and was convinced she had cancer because there could be no other reason. But i must say kidney stones are usualy more of a 10 or 11 on a pain scale of 1 10 so if it is only a 5 or 6 for you i would think it wasn t a stone.
Now as far as kidney stones are concerned there are several types of kidney stones.
A counter argument for using ultrasound in diagnosing of kidney stones is that ureteral stones are usually difficult to visualize with ultrasound and unless they are located at upj or in the distal ureter will not be seen with ultrasound. This is known as twinkling artifact which. Kidney stone not showing up on ct scan. Every symptom of kidney stones extreme pain but nothing on any scan ultrasound or mri.