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Received: 15 September 2021

Accepted: 14 December 2021

First Online: 9 March 2022

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: The authors declare that the research was conducted in the absence of any commercial or financial relationships that could be construed as a potential conflict of interest.

: Infections in the pediatric cancer patients are a frequent and potentially fatal complication if not rapidly diagnosed and adequately treated. Diagnostic exams such as CXR and CT are required in febrile cancer patient. However, CXR, especially during neutropenia, is not very specific and chest CT scan is complicated by organizational difficulties and greater exposure to ionizing radiation. Therefore, lung ultrasound could be an additional diagnostic tool useful as a first level examination, non-invasive, bedside, low cost, for the diagnosis of pneumonia in pediatric cancer patients, reducing mortality and improving the diagnostic and therapeutic process.

: Generated statement: no animal studies are presented in this manuscript.

: Generated statement: The procedure performed were in accordance with the principles of the 1964 Declaration of Helsinki and its later amendments (2013). Informed consent was obtained from all participants.

: Generated statement: no potentially identifiable human images or data are presented in the study.