Imaging of small amounts of pleural fluid. Part one - Small pleural effusions

Radiology and Oncology

Volumn 39, Issue 4, 2005, Pages

  Kocijančič, Igor ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF ONCOLOGY   (Slovenia)

Author keywords

Pleural effusion; Thoracic radiography

Indexed keywords

BIOACCUMULATION; ECHOGRAPHY; HUMAN; PLEURA EFFUSION; PLEURA FLUID; RADIODIAGNOSIS; REVIEW; THORAX RADIOGRAPHY;

EID: 31544449429     PISSN: 13182099     EISSN: 15813207     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Review

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