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01.03.2020 | Commentary

Critical remarks to ‘Pediatric lung ultrasound — pros and potentials’

verfasst von: Paolo Tomà

Erschienen in: Pediatric Radiology | Ausgabe 3/2020

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Jovan Lovrenski states [1] that “Aside from subpleural consolidations, lung US is very much based on artifacts, such as A- and B-lines,” but this aspect is poorly discussed in his article. The author, for example, says that pneumonia can be seen on lung ultrasound (US) as “focal confluent B-lines” without consolidation. I am perplexed and doubt such a pattern on lung US (without consolidations) allows the diagnosis of pneumonia without using traditional imaging. …
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Metadaten
Titel
Critical remarks to ‘Pediatric lung ultrasound — pros and potentials’
verfasst von
Paolo Tomà
Publikationsdatum
01.03.2020
Verlag
Springer Berlin Heidelberg
Erschienen in
Pediatric Radiology / Ausgabe 3/2020
Print ISSN: 0301-0449
Elektronische ISSN: 1432-1998
DOI
https://doi.org/10.1007/s00247-019-04553-8

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