ArticleEmergency medicine international2021
Lung Point Sign in Ultrasound Diagnostics of Pneumothorax: Imitations and Variants.
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- Lung Ultrasound in Children: Principles, Techniques, and Clinical Applications.Diagnostics (Basel, Switzerland) · 2026Review
- Using point-of-care lung ultrasound to detect post-thoracentesis complications: the hydro-point case report.International journal of surgery case reports · 2026Article
- Bilateral Lung Points without Pneumothorax: Exploring "Lung Point" Mimics.POCUS journal · 2025Article
- Nuts and bolts of lung ultrasound: utility, scanning techniques, protocols, and findings in common pathologies.Critical care (London, England) · 2024Review
- Lung Point in a Case of Bronchoscopy Lung Volume Reduction: Consider Its Mimics Before Inserting the Tube.POCUS journal · 2024Article
- RATTUS (Rat Thoracic Ultrasound): diagnosis of pneumothorax in pet rats.Frontiers in veterinary science · 2024Article
- Thoracic ultrasound for pneumothorax and infectious effusion: from equine beginnings to clinical cornerstone.Breathe (Sheffield, England) · 2023Article
- Point-of-Care Ultrasonography in Internal Medicine: Limitations and Pitfalls for Novice Users.Cureus · 2023Review
- An extended focused assessment with sonography in trauma ultrasound tissue-mimicking phantom for developing automated diagnostic technologies.Frontiers in bioengineering and biotechnology · 2023Article
- Neonatal pneumothoraces with atypical location: the role of lung ultrasound.European journal of pediatrics · 2022Article
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Abstract
backgroundPulmonary ultrasound plays a key role in the diagnosis of pneumothorax in emergency and intensive-care medicine. The lung point sign has been generally considered a pathognomonic diagnostic sign. Recently, several other situations have been published that can mimic the lung point, as well as a few different variants of the true lung point sign. MATERIALS AND
methodsBased on years of monitoring the literature and collecting our database of ultrasound findings, we prepared a review of ultrasound findings mimicking the lung point sign and ultrasound variants of the true lung point sign.
resultsWe present four imitations of the lung point sign (physiological lung point sign, pseudo-lung point sign, bleb point sign, and pleurofascial point sign) and two variants of the true lung point sign (double lung point sign and hydro point sign) documented by images and video records.
conclusionsKnowledge of ultrasound imitations and variants of the lung point sign may increase the reliability of pneumothorax diagnosis and may reduce the risk of performing unindicated interventions.
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