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Some artifacts are useless, others life-saving. The idea of suppressing all of them without discrimination is questionable. Technologies which will keep lung rockets alive will obviously keep alive the others, therefore, this short chapter. It intends to clarify the minds, describing all what can be encountered in the human being. Nothing is completely simple in medicine, and we aimed, in alphabetical order but some logic too, at decreasing the effort of memory. Remember that only two have a major clinical relevance, A-lines and B-lines (Fig. 40.1):
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Lichtenstein, D.A. (2016). Suggestion for Classifying Air Artifacts. In: Lung Ultrasound in the Critically Ill. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-15371-1_40
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