ReviewLa Radiologia medica2014
Transthoracic ultrasound in the assessment of pleural and pulmonary diseases: use and limitations.
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- A High Number of Ring-Down Artefacts and an Irregular Pleural Surface Are More Commonly Observed in WHWTs Suffering from Idiopathic Pulmonary Fibrosis Compared to Control WHWTs.Animals : an open access journal from MDPI · 2025Article
- Intraoperative Lung Ultrasound in the Detection of Pulmonary Nodules: A Valuable Tool in Thoracic Surgery.Diagnostics (Basel, Switzerland) · 2025Review
- Low Diagnostic Accuracy of Transthoracic Ultrasound for the Assessment of Spontaneous Pneumothorax in the Emergency Setting: A Multicentric Study.Journal of clinical medicine · 2024Article
- Ultrasound for Intra-Operative Detection of Peri-Centimetric Pulmonary Nodules in Uniportal Video-Assisted Thoracic Surgery (VATS): A Comparison with Conventional Techniques in Multiportal VATS.Journal of clinical medicine · 2024Article
- Diagnosis of benign and malignant peripheral lung lesions based on a feature model constructed by the random forest algorithm for grayscale and contrast-enhanced ultrasound.Frontiers in oncology · 2024Article
- Development of ultrasound-based clinical, radiomics and deep learning fusion models for the diagnosis of benign and malignant soft tissue tumors.Frontiers in oncology · 2024Article
- Deep learningJournal of biomedical optics · 2024Article
- Lung Ultrasound in Critical Care and Emergency Medicine: Clinical Review.Advances in respiratory medicine · 2023Review
- Pulmonary Ultrasonography in Systemic Sclerosis-Induced Interstitial Lung Disease-A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis.Diagnostics (Basel, Switzerland) · 2023Review
- Contrast-Enhanced Ultrasound in Distinguishing between Malignant and Benign Peripheral Pulmonary Consolidations: The Debated Utility of the Contrast Enhancement Arrival Time.Diagnostics (Basel, Switzerland) · 2023Article
- Thoracic ultrasound combined with low-dose computed tomography may represent useful screening strategy in highly exposed population in the industrial city of Taranto (Italy).Frontiers in medicine · 2023Article
- Effectiveness and Safety of Real-Time Transthoracic Ultrasound-Guided Thoracentesis.Diagnostics (Basel, Switzerland) · 2022Article
- Transthoracic ultrasound shear wave elastography for the study of subpleural lung lesions.Ultrasonography (Seoul, Korea) · 2022Article
- Effectiveness and Safety of Transthoracic Ultrasound in Guiding Percutaneous Needle Biopsy in the Lung and Comparison vs. CT Scan in Assessing Morphology of Subpleural Consolidations.Diagnostics (Basel, Switzerland) · 2021Article
- Perfusion Patterns of Peripheral Organizing Pneumonia (POP) Using Contrast-Enhanced Ultrasound (CEUS) and Their Correlation with Immunohistochemically Detected Vascularization Patterns.Diagnostics (Basel, Switzerland) · 2021Article
- Development and Assessment of Novel Lung Ultrasound Interpretation Criteria for the Detection of Interstitial Lung Disease in Systemic Sclerosis.Arthritis care & research · 2021Article
- Most patient conditions do not a priori debilitate the sensitivity of thoracic ultrasound in thoracic surgery-a prospective comparative study.Journal of cardiothoracic surgery · 2021Observational
- The Role of Transthoracic Ultrasound in the Study of Interstitial Lung Diseases: High-Resolution Computed Tomography Versus Ultrasound Patterns: Our Preliminary Experience.Diagnostics (Basel, Switzerland) · 2021Article
- Low Sensitivity of Admission Lung US Compared to Chest CT for Diagnosis of Lung Involvement in a Cohort of 82 Patients with COVID-19 Pneumonia.Medicina (Kaunas, Lithuania) · 2021Article
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Abstract
Interest in transthoracic ultrasound (US) procedures increased after the availability of portable US equipment suitable for use at the patient's bedside. It is possible to detect space-occupying lesions of the pleura, pleural effusion, focal or diffuse pleural thickening and subpleural lesions of the lung, even in emergency settings. Transthoracic US is useful as a guidance system for thoracentesis and peripheral lesion biopsy, where it minimises the occurrence of pneumothorax and haemorrhage. Transthoracic US imaging is strongly influenced by physical interaction of the ultrasonic beam at the tissue/air interface, which gives rise to reverberations classified as simple (A-line), "comet tail" and "ring down"(B-line) artifacts. Although these artifacts can be suggestive of a disease condition, they are essentially imaging errors present even in normal subjects and in empty-pleura post-pneumonectomy patients. In order to clarify some confusion and to report on the state of the art, we present a review of the literature on transthoracic US in diseases of the pleura and peripheral lung regions and our own clinical experience over 3 decades. The review focuses on quality assurance procedures and their value in diagnostic imaging and patient monitoring and warns against possible inappropriate indications and misleading information. Thoracic US is much more than "fishing for the moon in the well".
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