Computer-tomographically guided fiberbronchoscopic transbronchial biopsy of small pulmonary lesions: A feasibility study

Respiration

Volumn 63, Issue 3, 1996, Pages 181-186

  Wagner, Ulrich ^a   Walthers, Eduard M ^b   Gelmetti, Wolfgang ^b   Klose, Klaus Jochen ^b   Wichert, Peter Von ^a  

^a Department oflntemal Medicine   (Germany)

^b PHILIPPS UNIVERSITY MARBURG   (Germany)

Author keywords

Computed tomography; Fiberbronchoscopy; Lung lesions; Peripheral; Transbronchial biopsy

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; AIRWAY; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; FEMALE; FIBEROPTIC BRONCHOSCOPY; FIBROSING ALVEOLITIS; FLUOROSCOPY; FORCEPS; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; LUNG CARCINOMA; LUNG PARENCHYMA; MALE; PNEUMONIA; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TRANSBRONCHIAL BIOPSY;

ADULT; AGED; BIOPSY; BRONCHI; BRONCHOGRAPHY; BRONCHOSCOPY; FEASIBILITY STUDIES; FEMALE; FLUOROSCOPY; HUMANS; LUNG DISEASES; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; RADIOGRAPHY, THORACIC; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

EID: 0029880885     PISSN: 00257931     EISSN: 14230356     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1159/000196541     Document Type: Article

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