Imaging of pleural fluid in healthy individuals

Clinical Radiology

Volumn 59, Issue 9, 2004, Pages 826-829

  Kocijancic I ^a   Kocijancic K ^b   Cufer T ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF ONCOLOGY   (Slovenia)

^b UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTRE LJUBLJANA   (Slovenia)

Author keywords

Physiology; Pleura; Radiography; Thoracic; Ultrasound (US)

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING; ECHOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HUMAN; IMAGE ANALYSIS; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; PATIENT POSITIONING; PLEURA CAVITY; PLEURA FLUID; PRIORITY JOURNAL; THICKNESS; THORAX DISEASE; THORAX RADIOGRAPHY;

ADULT; AGED; BODY FLUIDS; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PLEURAL CAVITY; PLEURAL EFFUSION; POSTURE;

EID: 4544331414     PISSN: 00099260     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.crad.2004.01.017     Document Type: Article

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