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Hindawi Publishing Corporation Critical Care Research and Practice Volume 2012, Article ID 179719, 7 pages doi:10.1155/2012/179719 Research Article Sonographic Lobe Localization of Alveolar-Interstitial Syndrome in the Critically Ill Konstantinos Stefanidis,1 Stavros Dimopoulos,2 Chrysafoula Kolofousi,1 Demosthenes D. Cokkinos,1 Katerina Chatzimichail,3 Lewis A. Eisen,4 Mitchell Wachtel,5 Dimitrios Karakitsos,6 and Serafim Nanas2 1 Department of Radiology, Evangelismos Hospital, NKUA, 10676 Athens, Greece 2 1st Critical Care Medicine Department, Evangelismos Hospital, NKUA, 10676 Athens, Greece 3 Radiology Department, Attikon University Hospital, 12462 Athens, Greece 4 Division of Critical Care Medicine, Department of Medicine, Jay B. Langner Critical Care Service Montefiore Medical Center, Albert Einstein College of Medicine, 10467 Bronx NY, USA 5 Department of Biostatistics, Texas Tech University, 79409 Lubbock, TX, USA 6 Intensive Care Unit, General State Hospital of Athens, 11523 Athens, Greece Correspondence should be addressed to Stavros Dimopoulos, stdimop@med.uoa.gr Received 18 February 2012; Accepted 22 February 2012 Academic Editor: Apostolos Papalois Copyright © 2012 Konstantinos Stefanidis et al. This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. Introduction. Fast and accurate diagnosis of alveolar-interstitial syndrome is of major importance in the critically ill. We evaluated the utility of lung ultrasound (US) in detecting and localizing alveolar-interstitial syndrome in respective pulmonary lobes as compared to computed tomography scans (CT). Methods. One