The 'cardiac-lung mass' artifact: An echocardiographic sign of lung atelectasis and/or pleural effusion

Critical Care

Volumn 12, Issue 5, 2008, Pages

  Karabinis, Andreaa ^a   Saranteas, Theodosios ^a   Karakitsos, Dimitrios ^a   Lichtenstein, Daniel ^b   Poularas, John ^a   Yang, Clifford ^c   Stefanadis, Christodoulos ^d  

^a KAT HOSPITAL   (Greece)

^b HÔPITAL AMBROISE PARÉ   (France)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CONNECTICUT HEALTH CENTER   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF ATHENS MEDICAL SCHOOL   (Greece)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; APACHE; ARTICLE; ARTIFACT; ARTIFICIAL VENTILATION; ATELECTASIS; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIAGNOSTIC VALUE; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; ECHOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMAN; IMAGE ANALYSIS; IMAGE DISPLAY; LENGTH OF STAY; M MODE ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MULTIPLE TRAUMA; PLEURA EFFUSION; POSTOPERATIVE PERIOD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RESPIRATORY FAILURE; TRANSTHORACIC ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; COHORT ANALYSIS; COMPARATIVE STUDY; FOLLOW UP; HEART VENTRICLE; LUNG; METHODOLOGY; MIDDLE AGED; STANDARD;

ADULT; AGED; ARTIFACTS; COHORT STUDIES; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HEART VENTRICLES; HUMANS; LUNG; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PLEURAL EFFUSION; PULMONARY ATELECTASIS; RESPIRATION, ARTIFICIAL; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 54049118039     PISSN: 13648535     EISSN: 1466609X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/cc7021     Document Type: Article

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