B-lines: Transthoracic chest ultrasound signs useful in assessment of interstitial lung diseases

Annals of Thoracic Medicine

Volumn 9, Issue 2, 2014, Pages 99-103

  Hasan, Ali A ^a   Makhlouf, Hoda A ^a  

^a ASSIUT UNIVERSITY   (Egypt)

Author keywords

B lines; interstitial lung disease; transthoracic ultrasound

Indexed keywords

CARBON DIOXIDE;

ADULT; ARTICLE; COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY SCANNER; DIAGNOSTIC VALUE; DISEASE SEVERITY; FEMALE; FORCED VITAL CAPACITY; HIGH RESOLUTION COMPUTER TOMOGRAPHY; HUMAN; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; INTERSTITIAL LUNG DISEASE; LUNG DIFFUSION CAPACITY; LUNG FIBROSIS; LUNG FUNCTION TEST; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; OXYGEN TENSION; TOTAL LUNG CAPACITY; TRANSTHORACIC CHEST ULTRASOUND; ULTRASOUND; ULTRASOUND SCANNER;

EID: 84898738833     PISSN: 18171737     EISSN: 19983557     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.4103/1817-1737.128856     Document Type: Article

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