Does this patient have a pleural effusion?

JAMA

Volumn 301, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 309-317

  Wong, Camilla L ^a,c   Holroyd Leduc, Jayna ^d   Straus, Sharon E ^b,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

^c ST MICHAEL'S HOSPITAL   (Canada)

^d UNIVERSITY OF CALGARY   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ABNORMAL RESPIRATORY SOUND; ARTICLE; AUSCULTATION; CITATION ANALYSIS; CONSENSUS; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; DIAGNOSTIC TEST; EMBASE; ENGLISH AS A SECOND LANGUAGE; HUMAN; MEDLINE; PALPATION; PERCUSSION; PHYSICAL EXAMINATION; PLEURA EFFUSION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROBABILITY; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; PUBLICATION; RADIODIAGNOSIS; RANDOM SAMPLE; SYSTEMATIC REVIEW; THORAX RADIOGRAPHY; REVIEW;

AUSCULTATION; HUMANS; PALPATION; PERCUSSION; PHYSICAL EXAMINATION; PLEURAL EFFUSION; RADIOGRAPHY, THORACIC;

EID: 58749092505     PISSN: 00987484     EISSN: 15383598     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1001/jama.2008.937     Document Type: Article

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