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Diagnostic performance of chest radiography measurements for the assessment of cardiac chamber enlargement

BACKGROUND: The cardiothoracic ratio (CTR) is commonly assessed on chest radiography for detection of cardiac chamber enlargement, but the traditional cutpoint of 0.5 has low specificity. We sought to evaluate the diagnostic accuracy of new measurement techniques for the detection of cardiac enlarge...

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Autores principales: Torres, Felipe Soares, Eifer, Diego A., Times, Felipe Sanchez, Nguyen, Elsie T., Hanneman, Kate
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: CMA Joule Inc. 2021
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8584372/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/34750176
http://dx.doi.org/10.1503/cmaj.210083