Determining the optimal number of specimens to obtain with needle biopsy of the pleura

Respiratory Medicine

Volumn 96, Issue 1, 2002, Pages 14-17

  Jimenez D ^a   Perez Rodriguez E ^a   Diaz, G ^a   Fogue, L ^a   Light, R W ^b  

^a HOSPITAL RAMÓN Y CAJAL   (Spain)

^b VANDERBILT UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Carcinoma; Diagnostic performance; Pleural biopsy; Pleural effusion; Tuberculosis

Indexed keywords

ADENOSINE DEAMINASE; ALBUMIN; CHOLESTEROL; GLUCOSE; LACTATE DEHYDROGENASE; PROTEIN; TRIACYLGLYCEROL;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BACTERIUM CULTURE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIAGNOSTIC PROCEDURE; FEMALE; HEMATOLOGY; HUMAN; LABORATORY TEST; LUNG CARCINOMA; LUNG TUBERCULOSIS; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MICROBIOLOGICAL EXAMINATION; NEEDLE BIOPSY; PLEURA BIOPSY; PLEURA EFFUSION; PLEURA FLUID; PRIORITY JOURNAL; THORACOSCOPY; THORACOTOMY; METHODOLOGY; MIDDLE AGED; NONPARAMETRIC TEST; PATHOLOGY; PLEURA; PLEURA DISEASE; PLEURA TUMOR; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; TUBERCULOUS PLEURISY;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; BIOPSY, NEEDLE; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PLEURA; PLEURAL DISEASES; PLEURAL NEOPLASMS; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; STATISTICS, NONPARAMETRIC; TUBERCULOSIS, PLEURAL;

EID: 0036358596     PISSN: 09546111     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1053/rmed.2001.1200     Document Type: Article

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