Resolution: this patient has a splinter. While foreign bodies tend to generally be hyperechoic, metallic foreign bodies have posterior reverberation artifact and wooden foreign bodies (like stones and bones) tend to have posterior acoustic shadowing.

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Meghan Kelly Herbst, MD @eusmkh · 6 years ago
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