Accuracy of lung ultrasonography versus chest radiography for the diagnosis of adult community-acquired pneumonia: Review of the literature and meta-analysis

PLoS ONE

Volumn 10, Issue 6, 2015, Pages

  Ye, Xiong ^a   Xiao, Hui ^b   Chen, Bo ^c   Zhang, SuiYang ^c  

^a FUDAN UNIVERSITY PUDONG MEDICAL CENTER   (China)

^b SHANGHAI JIAO TONG UNIVERSITY   (China)

^c Second Artillery General Hospital   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AREA UNDER THE CURVE; ARTICLE; COMMUNITY ACQUIRED PNEUMONIA; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; ECHOGRAPHY; HOSPITAL DISCHARGE; HUMAN; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; LUNG ULTRASONOGRAPHY; RECEIVER OPERATING CHARACTERISTIC; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SYSTEMATIC REVIEW; THORAX RADIOGRAPHY; COMMUNITY-ACQUIRED INFECTIONS; COMPARATIVE STUDY; DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING; LUNG; META ANALYSIS; ODDS RATIO; PNEUMONIA; PROCEDURES; REPRODUCIBILITY; X-RAY COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY;

AREA UNDER CURVE; COMMUNITY-ACQUIRED INFECTIONS; HUMANS; LUNG; ODDS RATIO; PNEUMONIA; RADIOGRAPHY, THORACIC; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; ROC CURVE; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED; ULTRASONOGRAPHY;

EID: 84939186655     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0130066     Document Type: Article

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