Diagnostic accuracy of sonography for pleural effusion: systematic review

CONTEXT AND OBJECTIVE: The initial method for evaluating the presence of pleural effusion was chest radiography. Isolated studies have shown that sonography has greater accuracy than radiography for this diagnosis; however, no systematic reviews on this matter are available in the literature. Thus,...

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Main Authors: Alexandre Grimberg, David Carlos Shigueoka, Álvaro Nagib Atallah, Sergio Ajzen, Wagner Iared
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Associação Paulista de Medicina
Series:São Paulo Medical Journal
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Online Access:http://www.scielo.br/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S1516-31802010000200009&lng=en&tlng=en