Sonographic Appearances in Transudative Pleural Effusions: Not Always an Anechoic Pattern

Ultrasound in Medicine and Biology

Volumn 34, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 362-369

  Chen, Hung Jen ^a   Tu, Chih Yen ^a   Ling, Shinn Jye ^a   Chen, Wei ^a   Chiu, Kuo Liang ^a   Hsia, Te Chun ^a   Shih, Chuen Ming ^a   Hsu, Wu Huei ^a  

^a CHINA MEDICAL UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

Anechoic; Complex nonseptated; Exudates; Transudates; Ultrasonography

Indexed keywords

MEDICAL IMAGING; PATTERN RECOGNITION; PROBLEM SOLVING; PROTEINS;

ANECHOIC PATTERN; ECHOGENIC MATERIAL; PLEURAL EFFUSION;

ULTRASONOGRAPHY;

PLASMA PROTEIN;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CLINICAL STUDY; ECHOGRAPHY; EXTRAVASCULAR FLUID; FEMALE; HUMAN; IMAGING; LACTATE DEHYDROGENASE BLOOD LEVEL; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PLEURA EFFUSION; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ERYTHROCYTE COUNT; EXUDATES AND TRANSUDATES; FEMALE; HUMANS; IMAGE INTERPRETATION, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; L-LACTATE DEHYDROGENASE; LEUKOCYTE COUNT; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; OBSERVER VARIATION; PLEURAL EFFUSION; PROTEINS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES;

EID: 43049088497     PISSN: 03015629     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ultrasmedbio.2007.09.009     Document Type: Article

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