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It was first necessary to carefully define the B-line. Now, we can do one more step – the essential one: lung rockets. Several names were given; here is the latest update (see Anecdotal Note 1).
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Lichtenstein, D.A. (2016). Lung Rockets: The Ultrasound Sign of Interstitial Syndrome. In: Lung Ultrasound in the Critically Ill. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-15371-1_12
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