Ecografia toracica nel paziente pediatrico: una rassegna

Abstract

Thoracic ultrasound is a diagnostic tool whose field of application has enormously developed during the last few years, especially in Paediatrics. The absence of ionizing radiations is the main advantage of this tool. Moreover, it can be performed quickly and at the patient’s bed. The paper - starting from a review of the literature - describes the main elements of the semeiotics of thoracic ultrasound, distinguishing the normal findings from the pathologic ones, some applications of functional thoracic ultrasound and the main fields of application. The paper provides the non-expert paediatrician with the bases that help them to learn this technique and the expert one with an easy guide.