The efficacy of chest radiographs in detecting parapneumonic effusions

Respirology

Volumn 16, Issue 6, 2011, Pages 1000-1004

  Brixey, Anupama G ^a   Luo, Yifeng ^a,c   Skouras, Vasileios ^a,d   Awdankiewicz, Anna ^b   Light, Richard W ^a  

^a VANDERBILT UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b VANDERBILT UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^c SUN YAT SEN UNIVERSITY   (China)

^d 401 GENERAL MILITARY HOSPITAL OF ATHENS   (Greece)

Author keywords

clinical respiratory medicine; pleural disease; pneumonia; radiology and other imaging; respiratory infection

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ANTEROPOSTERIOR THORAX RADIOGRAPHY; ARTICLE; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; EFFUSION; FEMALE; HUMAN; IMAGE ANALYSIS; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PARAPNEUMONIC EFFUSION; PLEURA FLUID; PNEUMONIA; POSTERIOANTERIOR THORAX RADIOGRAPHY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PULMONOLOGY; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS; THICKNESS; THORAX RADIOGRAPHY;

ADULT; AGED; DIAGNOSTIC ERRORS; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PLEURAL EFFUSION; PNEUMONIA; RADIOGRAPHY, THORACIC; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

EID: 79960830755     PISSN: 13237799     EISSN: 14401843     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1440-1843.2011.02006.x     Document Type: Article

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