Lung ultrasound must be the first-line image technique in COVID-19 patients

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¹ Clinical Ultrasound Unit. Internal Medicine Department. Infanta Leonor-Virgen de la Torre University Hospital, Madrid, Spain. Electronic address: jtorresmacho@gmail.com.
² Clinical Ultrasound Unit. Internal Medicine Department. Infanta Leonor-Virgen de la Torre University Hospital, Madrid, Spain.

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Juan Torres-Macho et al. Eur J Intern Med. 2023 Apr.

. 2023 Apr:110:21-22.

doi: 10.1016/j.ejim.2023.02.018. Epub 2023 Feb 20.

¹ Clinical Ultrasound Unit. Internal Medicine Department. Infanta Leonor-Virgen de la Torre University Hospital, Madrid, Spain. Electronic address: jtorresmacho@gmail.com.
² Clinical Ultrasound Unit. Internal Medicine Department. Infanta Leonor-Virgen de la Torre University Hospital, Madrid, Spain.

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Declaration of Competing Interest The authors declare not to have any conflict of interest related to this study.

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