Should bedside sonography be used first to diagnose pneumothorax secondary to blunt trauma?

Journal of Clinical Ultrasound

Volumn 40, Issue 3, 2012, Pages 142-146

  Donmez, Halil ^a   Tokmak, Turgut Tursem ^a   Yildirim, Afra ^a   Buyukoglan, Hakan ^a   Ozturk, Mehmet ^a   Yaşar Ayaz, Ümit ^b   Mavili, Ertugrul ^a  

^a ERCIYES UNIVERSITY MEDICAL FACULTY   (Turkey)

^b Mersin Women's and Children's Hospital   (Turkey)

Author keywords

Lung; Pleura; Pneumothorax; Thorax; Ultrasound

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BLUNT TRAUMA; ECHOGRAPHY; HOSPITAL INFORMATION SYSTEM; HUMAN; MULTIPLE TRAUMA; OBSERVER VARIATION; PNEUMOTHORAX; PREDICTIVE VALUE; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; REPRODUCIBILITY; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; THORAX;

HUMANS; MULTIPLE TRAUMA; OBSERVER VARIATION; PNEUMOTHORAX; POINT-OF-CARE SYSTEMS; PREDICTIVE VALUE OF TESTS; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; THORAX; WOUNDS, NONPENETRATING;

EID: 84858005073     PISSN: 00912751     EISSN: 10970096     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/jcu.21884     Document Type: Article

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