Publication Name	World Journal of Cardiology
Manuscript ID	25626
Country	Italy

Received	2016-03-17 09:47
Peer-Review Started	2016-03-19 15:09
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Category	Radiology, Nuclear Medicine & Medical Imaging
Manuscript Type	Minireviews
Article Title	Thoracic ultrasound: A complementary diagnostic tool in cardiology
Manuscript Source	Invited Manuscript
All Author List	Guglielmo M Trovato
Funding Agency and Grant Number
Corresponding Author	Guglielmo M Trovato, MD, Department of Clinical and Experimental Medicine, The University Hospital of the University of Catania, AOU Policlinico Universitario, via Santa Sofia 78, 95100 Catania, Italy. guglielmotrovato@unict.it
Key Words	Thoracic ultrasound; Echocardiography; Congestive heart failure; Pneumonia; Pleural effusion; Cancer; Pneumothorax; Clinical risk management
Core Tip	Thoracic ultrasound (TUS) is an imaging tool, well developed but not uniformly used, which provides information on pleura, lung and heart disease; TUS is a procedure that deserves greater dissemination, since quite neglected by cardiologists, pneumologists and even radiologists in the current practice; small pleural effusions (useful for monitoring congestive heart failure), lung consolidation (particularly relevant in pneumonia) and pneumothorax, even with different reliability, may be detected; adequate training, avoiding overshadowing or misleading artefacts, is needed and must be integrated within curricula.
Publish Date	2016-10-26 15:44
Citation	Trovato GM. Thoracic ultrasound: A complementary diagnostic tool in cardiology. World J Cardiol 2016; 8(10): 566-574
URL	http://www.wjgnet.com/1949-8462/full/v8/i10/566.htm
DOI	http://dx.doi.org/10.4330/wjc.v8.i10.566

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