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Chest Ultrasound (US)

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Pediatric Chest Imaging

Part of the book series: Medical Radiology ((Med Radiol Diagn Imaging))

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Ultrasound (US) was initially applied mainly to detect pleural fluid; however, the applications of US for the chest have been widely extended over time (Yang et al. 1992a; Pan-Chyr et al. 1992; Civardi et al. 1993; Ben-Ami et al. 1993; Gehmacher et al. 1995; Seibert et al. 1998; Kim et al. 2000; Wernecke et al. 2000; Durand et al. 2001; Williams et al. 2003; Coley et al. 2005). Although air in healthy lungs and calcium in bony structures hinder transmission of the US beam, chest lesions involving the lung, mediastinum and pleura can be studied through anatomical “acoustic windows”(supraclavicular, suprasternal, parasternal and intercostal spaces), and by the transdiaphragmatic (subxiphoid and subcostal) approach. Furthermore, the lack of costal cartilage ossification and low bone mineral content in infants facilitates transosseous (trans-sternal and transcostal) scanning.

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Enriquez, G., Aso, C., Serres, X. (2008). Chest Ultrasound (US). In: Lucaya, J., Strife, J.L. (eds) Pediatric Chest Imaging. Medical Radiology. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-32676-2_1

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