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Ultrasound Examination of the Thorax

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Radiologic Diagnosis of Chest Disease

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Abstract

Although many investigators have examined the potentials of ultrasonography in the thoracic area (1–51), this technique has never become a general accepted and routinely used imaging modality of the chest. Some of the reasons for this fact are:

  • Ultrasound does not pass through air and bone; therefore, its use in the chest is limited to lesions that either abut or arise from the mediastinum, the chest wall, or the diaphragm.

  • With the introduction of real-time ultrasound it is no longer possible to obtain overview images of the thoracic wall, the diaphragm, or the mediastinum.

  • The high accuracy of other thoracic diagnostic techniques often makes ultrasound superfluous or complimentary to other examinations.

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Marchal, G., Verschakelen, J., Verbeken, E., Baert, A.L., Lauweryns, J. (1990). Ultrasound Examination of the Thorax. In: Sperber, M. (eds) Radiologic Diagnosis of Chest Disease. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4684-0347-3_6

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