The value of a noninvasive diagnostic approach to mediastinal masses

Annals of Thoracic Surgery

Volumn 75, Issue 4, 2003, Pages 1086-1090

  Hoerbelt, Ruediger ^a,b   Keunecke, Lars ^a   Grimm, Helmuth ^a   Schwemmle, Konrad ^a   Padberg, Winfried ^a  

^a JUSTUS LIEBIG UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^b MASSACHUSETTS GENERAL HOSPITAL   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

C REACTIVE PROTEIN;

ADULT; AGED; AMYLOIDOSIS; ANAMNESIS; ARTICLE; CARCINOID; COMPARATIVE STUDY; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CONTROLLED STUDY; COUGHING; DERMATOFIBROMA; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; DIAGNOSTIC APPROACH ROUTE; DYSPNEA; ERYTHROCYTE SEDIMENTATION RATE; FEMALE; FEVER; GANGLIONEUROMA; GERM CELL TUMOR; HEMANGIOMA; HODGKIN DISEASE; HUMAN; INFLAMMATION; LABORATORY TEST; LEUKOCYTOSIS; LIPOMA; LUNG CYST; LYMPH NODE BIOPSY; LYMPHADENOPATHY; LYMPHANGIOMA; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MEDIASTINUM LYMPH NODE; MEDIASTINUM MASS; MEDICAL ASSESSMENT; METASTASIS; NEURINOMA; NEUROBLASTOMA; NIGHT SWEAT; PHYSICAL EXAMINATION; PREOPERATIVE EVALUATION; PREVALENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; SARCOIDOSIS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SYMPTOM; TERATOMA; THORAX PAIN; THYMOMA; THYMUS HYPERPLASIA; THYROID ADENOMA; TUBERCULOSIS; WEIGHT REDUCTION;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; FEMALE; HUMANS; LABORATORY TECHNIQUES AND PROCEDURES; LYMPHATIC DISEASES; MALE; MEDIASTINAL DISEASES; MEDIASTINAL NEOPLASMS; MEDICAL HISTORY TAKING; MIDDLE AGED; PHYSICAL EXAMINATION; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

EID: 0037386206     PISSN: 00034975     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0003-4975(02)04726-4     Document Type: Article

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