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The Utility of Adding Expiratory or Decubitus Chest Radiographs to the Radiographic Evaluation of Suspected Pediatric Airway Foreign Bodies
Annals of Emergency Medicine, 08/01/2012
Brown JC et al. – The addition of decubitus to standard views increases false positives without increasing true positives and lacks clinical benefit. The addition of expiratory to standard views increases true positives without increasing false positives, but test accuracy remains low and the clinical benefit is uncertain.