Lung Ultrasound for Pleural Line Abnormalities, Confluent B-Lines, and Consolidation: Expert Reproducibility and a Method of Standardization.
Ernest A FischerTaro MinamiIrene W Y MaKosuke YasukawaPublished in: Journal of ultrasound in medicine : official journal of the American Institute of Ultrasound in Medicine (2021)
With proposed definitions or via collaboration, overall agreement on confluent B-lines and pleural line to consolidation abnormalities was robust. Pleural line abnormality agreement itself was persistently weak and caution should be used interpreting pleural line abnormalities with only a phased array probe.