The aim of this review is to provide the reader with a focus overview of the current use and diagnostic limitation of thoracic ultrasound for assessment of the lung parenchyma, and future development. The scope of this systematic review focuses on evaluating the diagnostic performance of lus, cxr, and ct for diagnosing pneumonia. In this imaging essay, the essentials of lung us are described and radiographic correlation for lung us imaging findings on chest radiographs and chest ct images is provided
A discussion of the role of lung us in health care delivery and the future directions of lung us is also included. However, a relatively new modality that is promising, efficient, and cheap is the lung ultrasound (lus)
