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THE USE OF ULTRASONOGRAPHY TO EVALUATE MUSCLE THICKNESS AND SUBCUTANEOUS FAT IN CHILDREN AND ADOLESCENTS WITH CYSTIC FIBROSIS

OBJECTIVE: To compare muscle thickness and subcutaneous fat in cystic fibrosis (CF) patients and healthy controls using ultrasonography (US), and to correlate US findings with nutritional, clinical and functional variables. METHODS: Patients aged 6 to 18 years old with a diagnosis of CF and healthy...

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Autores principales: de Souza, Rodrigo Pereira, Donadio, Márcio Vinícius Fagundes, Heinzmann-Filho, João Paulo, Baptista, Rafael Reimann, Pinto, Leonardo Araújo, Epifanio, Matias, Marostica, Paulo José Cauduro
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Sociedade de Pediatria de São Paulo 2018
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6322811/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/30540111
http://dx.doi.org/10.1590/1984-0462/;2018;36;4;00015