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Lung ultrasonography to diagnose community-acquired pneumonia in children

BACKGROUND: Early diagnosis of community-acquired pneumonia (CAP) is essential to reduce the total burden of this disease. Traditionally, chest radiography (CR) is used to identify true CAP. However, CR is not a perfect diagnostic test for CAP. The use of lung ultrasonography (LUS) has been suggeste...

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Autores principales: Principi, Nicola, Esposito, Andrea, Giannitto, Caterina, Esposito, Susanna
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2017
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5735901/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/29258484
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12890-017-0561-9