Lung ultrasound for the screening of interstitial lung disease in very early systemic sclerosis

Annals of the Rheumatic Diseases

Volumn 72, Issue 3, 2013, Pages 390-395

  Barskova, Tatiana ^a   Gargani, Luna ^b   Guiducci, Serena ^a   Randone, Silvia Bellando ^a   Bruni, Cosimo ^a   Carnesecchi, Giulia ^a   Conforti, Maria Letizia ^a   Porta, Francesco ^a   Pignone, Alberto ^a   Caramella, Davide ^c   Picano, Eugenio ^b   Cerinic, Marco Matucci ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF FLORENCE   (Italy)

^b INSTITUTE OF CLINICAL PHYSIOLOGY   (Italy)

^c UNIVERSITY OF PISA   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY SCANNER; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIAGNOSTIC TEST ACCURACY STUDY; DIAGNOSTIC VALUE; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; ECHOGRAPHY; FALSE POSITIVE RESULT; FEMALE; HIGH RESOLUTION COMPUTER TOMOGRAPHY; HUMAN; INTERSTITIAL LUNG DISEASE; LUNG FUNCTION TEST; LUNG ULTRASOUND; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PREDICTIVE VALUE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RECEIVER OPERATING CHARACTERISTIC; SCREENING; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SYSTEMIC SCLEROSIS; ULTRASOUND TRANSDUCER;

EARLY DIAGNOSIS; FEMALE; HUMANS; LUNG DISEASES, INTERSTITIAL; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; SCLERODERMA, SYSTEMIC;

EID: 84873714165     PISSN: 00034967     EISSN: 14682060     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1136/annrheumdis-2011-201072     Document Type: Article

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