Transthoracic Ultrasound in the Evaluation of Pulmonary Fibrosis: Our Experience

Ultrasound in Medicine and Biology

Volumn 35, Issue 5, 2009, Pages 723-729

  Sperandeo, Marco ^a   Varriale, Antonio ^a   Sperandeo, Giuseppe ^a   Filabozzi, Paola ^a   Piattelli, Maria Luisa ^a   Carnevale, Vincenzo ^a   Decuzzi, Marco ^b   Vendemiale, Gianluigi ^a  

^a CASA SOLLIEVO DELLA SOFFERENZA HOSPITAL   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BARI   (Italy)

Author keywords

Pulmonary fibrosis; Transthoracic ultrasonography

Indexed keywords

CHEST RADIOGRAPHIES; CONNECTIVE TISSUES; DISEASE SEVERITIES; GOLD STANDARDS; HEALTHY SUBJECTS; HIGH-RESOLUTION COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHIES; INTERSTITIAL LUNG DISEASE; LUNG BIOPSIES; LUNG SONOGRAPHIES; PULMONARY FIBROSIS; PULMONARY FUNCTION TESTS; RHEUMATOID ARTHRITIS; TRANSTHORACIC ULTRASONOGRAPHY;

ACOUSTIC WAVES; BIOLOGICAL ORGANS; BIOPSY; COMPUTERIZED TOMOGRAPHY; MEDICAL IMAGING; MUSCULOSKELETAL SYSTEM; PERSONNEL TRAINING; PULMONARY DISEASES; SECURITY OF DATA; TOMOGRAPHY; ULTRASONICS; ULTRASONOGRAPHY;

ULTRASONIC IMAGING;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; DISEASE SEVERITY; FEMALE; FIBROSING ALVEOLITIS; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; LUNG BIOPSY; LUNG FIBROSIS; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MIXED CONNECTIVE TISSUE DISEASE; POLYMYOSITIS; PRIMARY BILIARY CIRRHOSIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RHEUMATOID ARTHRITIS; SJOEGREN SYNDROME; SYSTEMIC SCLEROSIS; ULTRASOUND;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PULMONARY FIBROSIS; RESPIRATORY FUNCTION TESTS; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 67349254952     PISSN: 03015629     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ultrasmedbio.2008.10.009     Document Type: Article

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