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. 2021 Jul;47(7):811-812.
doi: 10.1007/s00134-021-06407-0. Epub 2021 May 11.

Limiting the areas inspected by lung ultrasound leads to an underestimation of COVID-19 patients' condition

Federico Mento  1 , Tiziano Perrone  2 , Anna Fiengo  2 , Francesco Tursi  3 , Veronica Narvena Macioce  3 , Andrea Smargiassi  4 , Riccardo Inchingolo  4 , Libertario Demi  5
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Limiting the areas inspected by lung ultrasound leads to an underestimation of COVID-19 patients' condition

Federico Mento et al. Intensive Care Med. 2021 Jul.
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For each protocol, the number of exams with bilateral large consolidations and/or white lung is represented as orange bars. The combination of orange and red bars represents the number of exams with bilateral small or large consolidations and/or white lung. Here, we refer to exams rather than patients as some patients were examined multiple times (on different dates), obtaining a total number of exams of 133 rather than 100. Of the 133 exams, 110 exams had bilateral small or large consolidations and/or white lung
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  • Lung ultrasound for the early diagnosis of COVID-19 pneumonia: an international multicenter study.
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