The Role of Transthoracic Ultrasound in the novel Coronavirus Disease (COVID-19): A Reappraisal. Information and Disinformation: Is There Still Place for a Scientific Debate?

Front Med (Lausanne). 2020 May 27:7:271. doi: 10.3389/fmed.2020.00271. eCollection 2020.

Carla Maria Irene Quarato^{1

2}, Mariapia Venuti^{1

2}, Donato Lacedonia^{1

2}, Anna Simeone³, Lucia Maria Cecilia Dimitri⁴, Gaetano Rea⁵, Beatrice Ferragalli⁶, Marco Sperandeo⁷

¹ COVID-19 Center, Institute of Respiratory Diseases, Azienda Ospedaliero Universitaria Ospedali Riuniti di Foggia, Foggia, Italy.
² Department of Medical and Surgical Sciences, Institute of Respiratory Diseases, University of Foggia, Foggia, Italy.
³ Unit of Radiology, COVID-19 Center, IRCCS Casa Sollievo della Sofferenza, San Giovanni Rotondo, Italy.
⁴ Unit of Pathology, COVID-19 Center, IRCCS Fondazione Casa Sollievo della Sofferenza, San Giovanni Rotondo, Italy.
⁵ Radiology Section, Department of Imaging, Monaldi Hospital, Naples, Italy.
⁶ Unit of Radiology, Department of Medical, Oral and Biotechnological Sciences, Adriatic University "G d'Annunzio", Chieti, Italy.
⁷ Unit of Interventional and Diagnostic Ultrasound of Internal Medicine, COVID-19 Center, IRCCS Fondazione Casa Sollievo della Sofferenza, San Giovanni Rotondo, Italy.

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Keywords: COVID-19; diagnostic accuracy; lung imaging; transthoracic ultrasound; ultrasound artifacts.