Benefits, Open questions and Challenges of the use of Ultrasound in the COVID-19 pandemic era. The views of a panel of worldwide international experts

Fabio Piscaglia; Federico Stefanini; Vito Cantisani; Paul S. Sidhu; Richard Barr; Annalisa Berzigotti; Maria Cristina Chammas; Jean-Michel Correas; Christoph Frank Dietrich; Steven Feinstein; Pintong Huang; Christian Jenssen; Yuko Kono; Masatoshi Kudo; Ping Liang; Andrej Lyshchik; Christian Nolsøe; Xyaoyan Xie; Francesco Tovoli

doi:10.1055/a-1149-9872

Ultraschall in der Medizin - European Journal of Ultrasound, Inhaltsverzeichnis

Ultraschall Med 2020; 41(03): 228-236
DOI: 10.1055/a-1149-9872

Editorial

Benefits, Open questions and Challenges of the use of Ultrasound in the COVID-19 pandemic era. The views of a panel of worldwide international experts

Vorteile, offene Fragen und Herausforderungen des Einsatzes von Ultraschall in der Ära der COVID-19-Pandemie. Die Ansichten einer Gruppe von internationalen Experten aus aller Welt

Fabio Piscaglia^*

¹COVID-19 Unit & Unit of Internal Medicine, Azienda Ospedaliero Universitaria S.Orsola Malpighi, Bologna, Italy

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Federico Stefanini

¹COVID-19 Unit & Unit of Internal Medicine, Azienda Ospedaliero Universitaria S.Orsola Malpighi, Bologna, Italy

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Vito Cantisani

²Radiological, Anatomo-pathological and Oncologic Sciences Department, Policlinico Umberto I, University La Sapienza, Rome, Italy

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Paul S. Sidhu

³Department of Radiology, King’s College London. King’s College Hospital, London, UK

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Richard Barr

⁴Radiology, Northeastern Ohio Medical University, USA

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Annalisa Berzigotti

⁵Hepatology, University Clinic for visceral surgery and medicine, Inselspital, University of Bern, Switzerland

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Maria Cristina Chammas

⁶Ultrasound Division of Hospital das Clínicas, School of Medicine, University of São Paulo, São Paulo, Brazil

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Jean-Michel Correas

⁷Department of Adult Radiology, Paris University & Necker University Hospital, Paris, France

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Christoph Frank Dietrich

⁸Kliniken Hirslanden Beau Site, Salem und Permanence, Bern, Switerzeland

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Steven Feinstein

⁹Rush Universty Medical Center, Chicago, USA

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Pintong Huang

¹⁰Department of Ultrasound in Medicine,the Second Affiliated Hospital of Zhejiang University School of Medicine, China

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Christian Jenssen

¹¹Department of Internal Medicine, Krankenhaus Märkisch-Oderland, Strausberg, and Brandenburg Institute for Clinical Ultrasound (BICUS), Medical University Brandenburg, Neuruppin, Germany

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Yuko Kono

¹²Department of Medicine, Radiology, University of California, San Diego, USA

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Masatoshi Kudo

¹³Department of Gastroenterology and Hepatology, Kindai University Faculty of Medicine, Japan

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Ping Liang

¹⁴Interventional Ultrasound Department, Chinese PLA General Hospital, Beijing, China

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Andrej Lyshchik

¹⁵Radiology Unity, Thomas Jefferson University Hospital, Philadelphia, USA

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Christian Nolsøe

¹⁶Centre for Surgical Ultrasound, Dep of Surgery, Zealand University Hospital, Køge, Copenhagen Denmark

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Xyaoyan Xie

¹⁷Institute of Diagnostic and Interventional Ultrasound The First Affiliated Hospital of Sun Yat-Sen University, Guangzhou, China

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Francesco Tovoli^*

¹COVID-19 Unit & Unit of Internal Medicine, Azienda Ospedaliero Universitaria S.Orsola Malpighi, Bologna, Italy

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