Look at the lung: Can chest ultrasonography be useful in pregnancy?

Multidisciplinary Respiratory Medicine

Volumn 9, Issue 1, 2014, Pages

  Inchingolo, Riccardo ^a   Smargiassi, Andrea ^a,b   Mormile, Flaminio ^a   Marra, Roberta ^a   De Carolis, Sara ^a   Lanzone, Antonio ^a   Valente, Salvatore ^a   Corbo, Giuseppe M ^a  

^a FONDAZIONE POLICLINICO UNIVERSITARIO A GEMELLI IRCCS   (Italy)

^b CATHOLIC UNIVERSITY   (Italy)

Author keywords

Chest ultrasound; Pleural disease; Pneumonia; Pregnancy; Thoracic imaging

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CHEST ULTRASONOGRAPHY; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CLINICAL EVALUATION; ECHOGRAPHY; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; HUMAN; LEUKOCYTOSIS; LEUKOPENIA; LUNG PARENCHYMA; PLEURA CAVITY; PLEURA EFFUSION; PNEUMONIA; PREGNANCY; PREGNANT WOMAN; REAL TIME ULTRASOUND SCANNER; RESPIRATORY TRACT DISEASE; SONOGRAPHIC INTERSTITIAL SYNDROME; THORAX RADIOGRAPHY;

EID: 84901944279     PISSN: 1828695X     EISSN: 20496958     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/2049-6958-9-32     Document Type: Article

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