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Ultrasound diagnosis of pneumonia in children

R Copetti, +1 more
- 02 Apr 2008 - 
- Vol. 113, Iss: 2, pp 190-198
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Lung ultrasound is a simple and reliable tool that can be used by the clinician in the case of suspected pneumonia and is as reliable as CXR, can be easily repeated at the patient’s bedside and carries no risk of irradiation.
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Purpose This study was done to compare the diagnostic accuracy of ultrasound and chest X-ray (CXR) in children with suspected pneumonia.

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Lung Ultrasound for the Diagnosis of Pneumonia in Children: A Meta-analysis

TL;DR: Current evidence supports LUS as an imaging alternative for the diagnosis of childhood pneumonia, and recommendations to train pediatricians on LUS for diagnosis of pneumonia may have important implications in different clinical settings.
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Lung Ultrasound in the Diagnosis and Follow-up of Community-Acquired Pneumonia : A Prospective, Multicenter, Diagnostic Accuracy Study

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The comet-tail artifact. An ultrasound sign of alveolar-interstitial syndrome.

TL;DR: Tomodensitometric correlations showed that the thickened sub-pleural interlobular septa, as well as ground-glass areas, two lesions present in acute pulmonary edema, were associated with the presence of the comet-tail artifact.
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Comparative Diagnostic Performances of Auscultation, Chest Radiography, and Lung Ultrasonography in Acute Respiratory Distress Syndrome

TL;DR: At the bedside, lung ultrasonography is highly sensitive, specific, and reproducible for diagnosing the main lung pathologic entities in patients with ARDS and can be considered an attractive alternative to bedside chest radiography and thoracic computed tomography.
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A bedside ultrasound sign ruling out pneumothorax in the critically ill. Lung sliding.

Daniel Lichtenstein, +1 more
- 01 Nov 1995 - 
TL;DR: Ultrasound was a sensitive test for detection of pneumothorax, although false-positive cases were noted, and the principal value of this test was that it could immediately exclude anterior pneumothsorax.
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Ultrasound diagnosis of occult pneumothorax.

TL;DR: For the diagnosis of occult pneumothorax, ultrasound can decrease the need for computed tomography, and this study concluded that lung ultrasound could be of any help in this situation.
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Ultrasound diagnosis of alveolar consolidation in the critically ill.

TL;DR: Ultrasound provides a reliable non-invasive, bedside method for accurate detection and location of alveolar consolidation in critically ill patients and shows anterior involvement in all 3 cases of whole lung consolidation.
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