Evaluation of the diagnostic performance of physician lung ultrasound versus chest radiography for pneumonia diagnosis in a peri-urban South African cohort.
Shyam Sunder B VenkatakrishnaJacob A M StadlerTracy KilbornDavid M Le RouxHeather J ZarSavvas AndronikouPublished in: Pediatric radiology (2023)
Lung US identified consolidation with similar frequency to CXR, but there was poor agreement between modalities. The significantly higher inter-observer agreement of LUS compared to CXR supports the utilization of lung US by clinicians in a low-resource setting.