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What tools (high and low tech) can be used to find a foreign body (eg a splinter)?

What are some tools that can be used to find a finding the exact location of a foreign body object inside someone? I'm interested in both: Low-tech tools that almost everyone in the world either [a] ...
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Is ultrasound more subjective than X-ray?

There is some discussion on Ultra-sonic vs X-ray about ultrasound interpretation being more subjective than X-ray findings. Possible sources of ultrasound image quality variation might be the skill of ...
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Ultrasound vs X-ray [closed]

It might be that this is more a physical question but as the application is medical I firstly want to adress it here: What are the limits of ultra-sonics in regard to diagnosis respectively why are x-...
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How to request copies of CT-Scans, MRI, X-rays & ultrasound/endoscopic imagery from Dr.'s/Surgeons for personal records? Possible?

Because of the many congenital-bone-fusions (due to Klippel-Feil-Syndrome) throughout my life, doctors have performed many, many medical-imaging tests (CT-Scans, MRIs, X-Rays, Ultrasounds, Endoscopies,...
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