Can chest ultrasonography replace standard chest radiography for evaluation of acute dyspnea in the ED?

Chest

Volumn 139, Issue 5, 2011, Pages 1140-1147

  Zanobetti, Maurizio ^a,b   Poggioni, Claudio ^a,b   Pini, Riccardo ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF FLORENCE   (Italy)

^b CAREGGI UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACUTE DISEASE; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BRONCHITIS; CHRONIC OBSTRUCTIVE LUNG DISEASE; CLINICAL EVALUATION; CLINICAL TRIAL; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; DIAGNOSTIC TEST ACCURACY STUDY; DYSPNEA; ECHOGRAPHY; EMERGENCY WARD; FEMALE; GOLD STANDARD; HUMAN; IMAGE ANALYSIS; IMAGE QUALITY; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; LUNG EDEMA; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PLEURA EFFUSION; PNEUMOTHORAX; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; THORAX RADIOGRAPHY;

EID: 79955770420     PISSN: 00123692     EISSN: 19313543     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1378/chest.10-0435     Document Type: Article

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