Mediastinoscopy in patients with presumptive stage I sarcoidosis: A risk/benefit, cost/benefit analysis

Chest

Volumn 113, Issue 1, 1998, Pages 147-153

  Reich, Jerome M ^a   Brouns, Matthew C ^b   O'Connor, Elizabeth A ^a   Edwards, Miles J ^c  

^a CENTER FOR HEALTH RESEARCH   (United States)

^b OREGON HEALTH AND SCIENCE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c OREGON HEALTH AND SCIENCE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Cost benefit; Hilar adenopathy; Hodgkin's disease; Lymphoma; Mediastinoscopy; Risk benefit; Sarcoidosis; Tuberculosis

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; COST BENEFIT ANALYSIS; DIFFERENTIAL DIAGNOSIS; HEALTH CARE COST; HODGKIN DISEASE; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMAN; INCIDENCE; LUNG SARCOIDOSIS; LYMPHADENOPATHY; MEDIASTINOSCOPY; MEDICAL LITERATURE; MORTALITY; NONHODGKIN LYMPHOMA; OBSERVATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RISK BENEFIT ANALYSIS; TRANSBRONCHIAL BIOPSY; TUBERCULOSIS;

EID: 0031974245     PISSN: 00123692     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1378/chest.113.1.147     Document Type: Article

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