Abstract

CRISTANCHO, Laura  and  GRANADA, Julio César. Ultrasound in General Surgery. rev. colomb. cir. [online]. 2019, vol.34, n.4, pp.372-385. ISSN 2011-7582.  https://doi.org/10.30944/20117582.517.

Ultrasound is a diagnostic imaging study with a broad history of use in all medical specialties. Its advent has helped the medical approach as well as the therapeutic approach of patients.

From its origin in the nineteenth century with the measurements of the speed of sound in the water, until the development of ultrasonic machines, sustained in the advances of technology in physics and engineering, has been used in a remarkable ways in medicine.

There is no doubt that in the field of general surgery it has been useful for the management of patients with abdominal pathologies, mainly to identify the characteristics of a normal organ and when this pattern of normality is affected the ultrasound technology allows to identify which disease is in place.

This review provides a historical review of how ultrasound was born, and how it began to be applied in the field of medicine and its utility for the general surgeon in various scenarios of surgical practice.

Keywords : ultrasonography; diagnostic imaging; general surgery; history; abdomen, acute.

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