Chest ultrasound in the evaluation of complicated pneumonia in the ICU patients: Can be viable alternative to CT?

Egyptian Journal of Radiology and Nuclear Medicine

Volumn 45, Issue 2, 2014, Pages 325-331

  El Sheikh, Hesham ^a   Abd Rabboh, Maged Mohamed ^b  

^a BENHA UNIVERSITY   (Egypt)

^b ZAGAZIG UNIVERSITY   (Egypt)

Author keywords

CT; ICU; Pleural effusion; Pneumonia; US

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CLINICAL ASSESSMENT; CLINICAL EVALUATION; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; ECHOGRAPHY; EMPYEMA; FEMALE; FIBRIN FORMATION; HUMAN; INTENSIVE CARE UNIT; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; LUNG ABSCESS; LUNG DISEASE; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PARENCHYMAL CONSOLIDATION; PLEURA EFFUSION; PLEURA FLUID; PNEUMONIA; PNEUMOTHORAX; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; PULMONARY NECROSIS; THORACOCENTESIS; THORAX RADIOGRAPHY; COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY SCANNER; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; DIAGNOSTIC TEST ACCURACY STUDY; HOSPITAL ADMISSION; IMAGE ANALYSIS; LUNG PARENCHYMA; NECROSIS; ULTRASOUND SCANNER; ULTRASOUND TRANSDUCER;

FIBRIN; IOHEXOL;

EID: 84901245683     PISSN: 0378603X     EISSN: 20904762     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ejrnm.2014.02.004     Document Type: Article

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