Diagnostic performances of high resolution trans-thoracic lung ultrasonography in pulmonary alveoli-interstitial involvement of rheumatoid lung disease

International Journal of Clinical and Experimental Medicine

Volumn 6, Issue 7, 2013, Pages 562-566

  Aghdashi, Miramir ^a   Broofeh, Behdad ^a   Mohammadi, Afshin ^a  

^a URMIA UNIVERSITY OF MEDICAL SCIENCES   (Iran)

Author keywords

Comet tail; Lung; Ultrasound

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY SCANNER; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIAGNOSTIC TEST ACCURACY STUDY; DISEASE COURSE; ECHOGRAPHY; FEMALE; GOLD STANDARD; HIGH RESOLUTION COMPUTER TOMOGRAPHY; HUMAN; IMAGE ANALYSIS; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; LUNG ALVEOLUS; LUNG DISEASE; LUNG INTERSTITIUM; MALE; PREDICTIVE VALUE; RHEUMATIC DISEASE; RHEUMATIC LUNG DISEASE; SCORING SYSTEM; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SYSTEMIC SCLEROSIS; TRANSTHORACIC LUNG ULTRASOUND; ULTRASOUND SCANNER;

EID: 84881084168     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19405901     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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