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Evidence-Based Imaging of Community Acquired Pneumonia in Children

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Evidence-Based Imaging in Pediatrics

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The definition of pneumonia varies depending on the organization, institution, or healthcare setting. The World Health Organization defines pneumonia based on clinical findings obtained by visual inspection and timing of the respiratory rate: cough, difficulty breathing, with or without fever, with either age-appropriate tachypnea or intercostal retractions [1, 2].

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  1. George Washington University Medical School, Washington, DC, USA

    Ramon Sanchez-Jacob & Narendra S. Shet

  2. Division of Pediatric Radiology, Children’s National Hospital, Washington, DC, USA

    Ramon Sanchez-Jacob & Narendra S. Shet

  3. Microbiology Department, Hospital Universitari Germans Trias i Pujol, Institut Germans Trias i Pujol, Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, Barcelona, Spain

    Cristina Prat Aymerich

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    Cristina Prat Aymerich

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    Cristina Prat Aymerich

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    Carlos Rodrigo

  7. Children’s National Hospital, Washington, DC, USA

    Susan Keller

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Sanchez-Jacob, R., Prat Aymerich, C., Rodrigo, C., Keller, S., Shet, N.S. (2022). Evidence-Based Imaging of Community Acquired Pneumonia in Children. In: Otero, H.J., Kaplan, S.L., Medina, L.S., Blackmore, C.C., Applegate, K.E. (eds) Evidence-Based Imaging in Pediatrics. Evidence-Based Imaging. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-38095-3_93-1

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