Pitfalls in CT-guided Transthoracic Needle Biopsy of Pulmonary Nodules

Radiographics

Volumn 16, Issue 5, 1996, Pages 1073-1084

  Yankelevitz, David F ^a   Davis, Sheila D ^a   Chiarella, Debra A ^a   Henschke, Claudia I ^a  

^a WEILL CORNELL MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Computed tomography (CT); Guidance, 60.1211; Interventional procedures, complications, 60.126 lung, biopsy, 60.126; Lung, nodule, 60.281

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BLEEDING; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; HUMAN; INTERVENTIONAL RADIOLOGY; LUNG; LUNG COIN LESION; LUNG TUMOR; METHODOLOGY; NEEDLE BIOPSY; PATHOLOGY; PNEUMOTHORAX; RADIOGRAPHY; RISK FACTOR;

BIOPSY, NEEDLE; COIN LESION, PULMONARY; HEMORRHAGE; HUMANS; LUNG; LUNG NEOPLASMS; PNEUMOTHORAX; RADIOGRAPHY, INTERVENTIONAL; RISK FACTORS; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

EID: 0030228291     PISSN: 02715333     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1148/radiographics.16.5.8888391     Document Type: Article

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