Chest Sonography in Children: Current Indications, Techniques, and Imaging Findings

Radiologic Clinics of North America

Volumn 49, Issue 5, 2011, Pages 825-846

  Coley, Brian D ^a  

^a THE OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Chest sonography; Imaging findings; Pediatric chest; Thoracic diseases

Indexed keywords

ATELECTASIS; BRONCHOGRAPHY; CHEST SONOGRAPHY; CHILD; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CONGENITAL DIAPHRAGM HERNIA; CONGENITAL PULMONARY AIRWAY MALFORMATION; CONTRAST ENHANCEMENT; DIFFERENTIAL DIAGNOSIS; ECHOGRAPHY; HEMANGIOMA; HUMAN; INTERSTITIAL LUNG DISEASE; LUNG ABSCESS; LUNG BLASTOMA; LUNG DYSPLASIA; LUNG EDEMA; MEDIASTINUM MASS; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PERCUTANEOUS DRAINAGE; PLEURA EFFUSION; PLEURA METASTASIS; PNEUMOTHORAX; PREDICTIVE VALUE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RESPIRATORY TRACT MALFORMATION; REVIEW; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SUPERIOR CAVA VEIN OBSTRUCTION; THORAX DISEASE; THORAX OUTLET SYNDROME; THORAX RADIOGRAPHY; THORAX WALL TUMOR; THYMOMA;

ADOLESCENT; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; FEMALE; HUMANS; INFANT; INFANT, NEWBORN; LUNG DISEASES; LUNG NEOPLASMS; MALE; PLEURAL DISEASES; PLEURAL NEOPLASMS; THORACIC DISEASES;

EID: 80052289830     PISSN: 00338389     EISSN: 15578275     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.rcl.2011.06.008     Document Type: Review

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