Mediastinal transthoracic needle and core lymph node biopsy: Should it replace mediastinoscopy?

Chest

Volumn 121, Issue 4, 2002, Pages 1165-1170

  Zwischenberger, Joseph B ^a   Savage, Clare ^b   Alpard, Scott K ^a   Anderson, Carryn M ^a   Marroquin, Santiago ^a   Goodacre, Brian W ^c  

^a University of Texas Medical Branch School of Medicine   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS SOUTHWESTERN MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^c VICTORIA GENERAL HOSPITAL   (Canada)

Author keywords

CT guided biopsy; Fine needle aspiration lung cancer; Lung cancer staging; Mediastinal lymphadenopathy; Mediastinoscopy

Indexed keywords

AORTOPULMONARY SEPTAL DEFECT; ARTICLE; ASPIRATION BIOPSY; CANCER CELL; CANCER DIAGNOSIS; CANCER STAGING; CELL TYPE; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEVICE; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; HUMAN; LUNG CANCER; LUNG GRANULOMA; LUNG PARENCHYMA; LYMPH NODE BIOPSY; LYMPHADENOPATHY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MEDIASTINOSCOPY; MEDIASTINUM LYMPH NODE; NEEDLE BIOPSY; PARAAORTIC LYMPH NODE; PNEUMOTHORAX; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SARCOIDOSIS; TRANSBRONCHIAL BIOPSY; TUBERCULOSIS; TUMOR BIOPSY; TUMOR VOLUME;

EID: 0036203931     PISSN: 00123692     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1378/chest.121.4.1165     Document Type: Article

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