Can chest x-ray predict pneumonia severity?

Pediatric Pulmonology

Volumn 38, Issue 6, 2004, Pages 465-469

  Grafakou, Olga ^a,b   Moustaki, Maria ^a   Tsolia, Maria ^a   Kavazarakis, Emmanuel ^a   Mathioudakis, John ^a   Fretzayas, Andrew ^a   Nicolaidou, Polyxeni ^a   Karpathios, Themistokles ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ATHENS   (Greece)

^b Aghia Sophia Children's Hospital ^*  (Greece)

Author keywords

Children; Community acquired pneumonia; Pneumonia location; Radiographic findings; Severity predictor; Size of consolidation

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ARTICLE; CHILD; CONFIDENCE INTERVAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE SEVERITY; FEVER; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMAN; LOBAR PNEUMONIA; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MULTIVARIATE LOGISTIC REGRESSION ANALYSIS; PLEURA EFFUSION; PNEUMONIA; PREDICTION; PREVALENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; THORAX; THORAX RADIOGRAPHY;

ADOLESCENT; ANTI-BACTERIAL AGENTS; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; FEMALE; FEVER; HUMANS; INFANT; LENGTH OF STAY; LUNG; MALE; PLEURAL EFFUSION; PNEUMONIA; PREDICTIVE VALUE OF TESTS; PROGNOSIS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 9644301060     PISSN: 87556863     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/ppul.20112     Document Type: Article

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