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Congenital lung malformations: a novel application for lung ultrasound?

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Congenital lung malformations (CLMs) include a group of different disorders. With widespread use of antenatal ultrasonography (aUS) and increased use of pre-natal magnetic resonance imaging (MRI), CLMs are increasingly detected, nevertheless the best postnatal imaging approach is not yet well defined: newborns usually undergo several chest X-rays and eventually computed tomography to confirm the diagnosis. In this case series, we show lung ultrasound features of three different cases of congenital lung malformations, describing prenatal and postnatal images comparing different imaging techniques.

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We are grateful to Morgan Witkin for English editing.

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  1. Dipartimento Scienze Salute della Donna, del Bambino e di Sanità Pubblica-UOC Chirurgia Pediatrica, Fondazione Policlinico Universitario A. Gemelli IRCCS, Rome, Italy

    L. Merli, L. Nanni, S. Silvaroli & F. V. Paradiso

  2. Istituto di Patologia Speciale Chirurgica, Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore, Rome, Italy

    L. Nanni

  3. Dipartimento Scienze Salute della Donna, del Bambino e di Sanità Pubblica-UOC Pediatria, Fondazione Policlinico Universitario A. Gemelli IRCCS, Rome, Italy

    A. Curatola & Danilo Buonsenso

  4. Dipartimento Scienze Salute della Donna, del Bambino e di Sanità Pubblica-UOC Ostetricia e Patologia Ostetrica, Fondazione Policlinico Universitario A. Gemelli IRCCS, Rome, Italy

    M. Pellegrino & M. De Santis

  5. Centro Studi per la Tutela della Salute della Madre e del Concepito, Istituto di Clinica Ostetrica e Ginecologica, Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore, Rome, Italy

    M. De Santis

  6. Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore, Rome, Italy

    Danilo Buonsenso

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Merli, L., Nanni, L., Curatola, A. et al. Congenital lung malformations: a novel application for lung ultrasound?. J Ultrasound 24, 349–353 (2021). https://doi.org/10.1007/s40477-019-00406-0

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