A comparison of biopsy through a parasternal anterior mediastinotomy under local anesthesia and percutaneous needle biopsy for malignant anterior mediastinal tumors

Surgery Today

Volumn 28, Issue 10, 1998, Pages 1022-1026

  Watanabe, Masazumi ^a   Takagi, Keigo ^a   Aoki, Teruhiro ^a   Ozeki, Yuichi ^a   Tanaka, Susumu ^a   Kobayashi, Hideo ^a   Aida, Shinsuke ^a  

^a NATIONAL DEFENSE MEDICAL COLLEGE   (Japan)

Author keywords

Anterior mediastinal tumor; Anterior mediastinotomy; Biopsy

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BIOPSY TECHNIQUE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; DIAGNOSTIC APPROACH ROUTE; FEMALE; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; LOCAL ANESTHESIA; MALE; MEDIASTINUM CANCER; PERCUTANEOUS BIOPSY;

EID: 0031728247     PISSN: 09411291     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/BF02483955     Document Type: Article

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