Description of free-flowing pleural effusions in medical reports after echographic assessment

Respiration

Volumn 85, Issue 5, 2013, Pages 439-441

  Smargiassi, Andrea ^a   Inchingolo, Riccardo ^a   Zanforlin, Alessandro ^b   Valente, Salvatore ^a   Soldati, Gino ^c   Corbo, Giuseppe Maria ^a  

^a FONDAZIONE POLICLINICO UNIVERSITARIO A GEMELLI IRCCS   (Italy)

^b Division of Medicine   (Italy)

^c Castelnuovo Garfagnana Hospital   (Italy)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

CLINICAL CLASSIFICATION; ECHOGRAPHY; HUMAN; LETTER; LUNG VOLUME; PATIENT POSITIONING; PLEURA CAVITY; PLEURA EFFUSION; PLEURA FLUID; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; SITTING; THORACOCENTESIS; ATELECTASIS; CLINICAL ASSESSMENT; DISEASE CLASSIFICATION; HEART FAILURE; KIDNEY FAILURE; LUNG HILUS; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MEDICAL RECORD; PNEUMONIA; PULMONOLOGY; REAL TIME ULTRASOUND SCANNER; SURGICAL DRAINAGE;

DRAINAGE; HUMANS; ITALY; PLEURAL EFFUSION; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX; ULTRASONOGRAPHY;

EID: 84876494005     PISSN: 00257931     EISSN: 14230356     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1159/000346991     Document Type: Letter

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