"Ultrasound comet-tail images": A marker of pulmonary edema - A comparative study with wedge pressure and extravascular lung water

Chest

Volumn 127, Issue 5, 2005, Pages 1690-1695

  Agricola, Eustachio ^a   Bove, Tiziana ^a   Oppizzi, Michele ^a   Marino, Giovanni ^a   Zangrillo, Alberto ^a   Margonato, Alberto ^a   Picano, Eugenio ^b  

^a SAN RAFFAELE HOSPITAL   (Italy)

^b INSTITUTE OF CLINICAL PHYSIOLOGY   (Italy)

Author keywords

Alveolar interstitial syndrome; Chest ultrasound; Comet tail artifact; Extravascular lung water

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; ECHOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HEMODYNAMICS; HUMAN; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; LUNG EDEMA; LUNG FLUID; MALE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; THORAX RADIOGRAPHY; ULTRASOUND; COMPARATIVE STUDY; INDICATOR DILUTION CURVE; LUNG EXTRAVASCULAR FLUID; LUNG WEDGE PRESSURE; MIDDLE AGED; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY;

AGED; EXTRAVASCULAR LUNG WATER; FEMALE; HUMANS; INDICATOR DILUTION TECHNIQUES; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PULMONARY EDEMA; PULMONARY WEDGE PRESSURE; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY;

EID: 19844374972     PISSN: 00123692     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1378/chest.127.5.1690     Document Type: Article

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