CT-guided transthoracic needle biopsy of small solitary pulmonary nodules

Clinical Imaging

Volumn 21, Issue 2, 1997, Pages 107-110

  Yankelevitz, David F ^a,b   Henschke, Claudia I ^a   Koizumi, June H ^a   Altorki, Nasser K ^a   Libby, Daniel ^a  

^a WEILL CORNELL MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^b WEILL CORNELL MEDICAL COLLEGE   (United States)

Author keywords

Biopsy; Complications; CT; Diagnosis; Lung cancer; Pulmonary nodules

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BENIGN TUMOR; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; HUMAN; LUNG CANCER; LUNG NODULE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; NEEDLE BIOPSY; TRANSBRONCHIAL BIOPSY;

BIOPSY, NEEDLE; COIN LESION, PULMONARY; DIAGNOSIS, DIFFERENTIAL; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HUMANS; LUNG NEOPLASMS; PNEUMOTHORAX; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

EID: 0030937778     PISSN: 08997071     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0899-7071(96)00011-3     Document Type: Article

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