Medical ultrasonography
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Medical ultrasonography · May 2017
Performance of lung ultrasonography for the diagnosis of communityacquired pneumonia in hospitalized children.
The objective of the study was to assess the performance of lung ultrasonography (LUS) as compared to chest radiography and the clinical criteria for the diagnosis of pneumonia in children. ⋯ In our opinion, our findings together withprevious ones available in the literature recommend LUS as a valuable investigation for the diagnosis of community-acquiredpneumonia in children.