During the last decade of his life, Adams was still writing full-force, including a memoir titled Grandfather Stories (1955). General Brock and Niagara Falls (1957) was followed by Chingo Smith of the Erie Canal (1958). Samuel Hopkins Adams died on 16 November 1958 at his Beaufort, South Carolina home.
Ultrasound uses sound waves that bounce off the pancreas, gallbladder, liver, and other organs, and their echoes generate electrical impulses that create an imageâcalled a sonogramâon a video monitor. If gallstones are causing inflammation, the sound waves will also bounce off of them, showing their location.
1 Inspect for jaundice (suggests gallstones in the common bile duct, cancer of the bile ducts, cholangitis or post-surgical biliary stricture). 2  Abdominal examination looking for tenderness in the right upper abdomen and occasionally a palpable gallbladder. 3  Blood tests.