The comet-tail artifact: An ultrasound sign ruling out pneumothorax

Intensive Care Medicine

Volumn 25, Issue 4, 1999, Pages 383-388

  Lichtenstein, D ^a   Meziere G ^b   Biderman, P ^a   Gepner, A ^b  

^a HÔPITAL AMBROISE PARÉ   (France)

^b Centre Hospitalier Genéral   (France)

Author keywords

Intensive care unit; Lung, ultrasound diagnosis; Pneumothorax; Ultrasound diagnosis

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; ARTIFACT; CLINICAL TRIAL; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; CRITICAL ILLNESS; DEVICE; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; ECHOGRAPHY; FEASIBILITY STUDY; FEMALE; HEMATOTHORAX; HUMAN; INTENSIVE CARE UNIT; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PLEURA EFFUSION; PNEUMOTHORAX; PROSPECTIVE STUDY;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ARTIFACTS; FEMALE; HUMANS; INTENSIVE CARE; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PNEUMOTHORAX; PREDICTIVE VALUE OF TESTS; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

EID: 0032937034     PISSN: 03424642     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s001340050862     Document Type: Article

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