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Case Reports
. 2020 Apr 14;192(15):E399.
doi: 10.1503/cmaj.200414. Epub 2020 Mar 31.

Lung ultrasound findings in a 64-year-old woman with COVID-19

Adam Thomas  1 , Greg Haljan  1 , Anish Mitra  2
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Case Reports

Lung ultrasound findings in a 64-year-old woman with COVID-19

Adam Thomas et al. CMAJ. .
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Competing interests: None declared.

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Figure 1:
Lung ultrasound of a 64-year-old female health care worker with no travel history, on day 10 after symptom onset. The lung point-of-care utrasound shows pleural thickening (right lung: green box); subpleural consolidation, also known as “skip lesion” (left upper lung: blue box); and multifocal B-lines (left lung: red box). The chest radiograph shows bilateral infiltrates.
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