Sonographically guided biopsy of supraclavicular lymph nodes: A simple alternative to lung biopsy and other more invasive procedures

American Journal of Roentgenology

Volumn 180, Issue 5, 2003, Pages 1403-1409

  Fultz, Patrick J ^a   Harrow, Amy R ^a   Elvey, Simone P ^a   Feins, Richard H ^a   Strang, John G ^a   Wandtke, John C ^a   Johnstone, David W ^a   Watson, Thomas J ^a   Gottlieb, Ronald H ^a   Voci, Susan L ^a   Rubens, Deborah J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ROCHESTER MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

AIR EMBOLISM; ARTICLE; ASPIRATION BIOPSY; BLEEDING; BODY POSITION; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING; ECHOGRAPHY; ESOPHAGUS CARCINOMA; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; IMAGE ANALYSIS; INFECTION; LUNG BIOPSY; LUNG CARCINOMA; LYMPH NODE BIOPSY; LYMPH NODE METASTASIS; PNEUMOTHORAX; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SARCOIDOSIS; TREATMENT INDICATION; TREATMENT PLANNING; TUMOR VOLUME; UTERINE CERVIX CARCINOMA;

EID: 0037406017     PISSN: 0361803X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2214/ajr.180.5.1801403     Document Type: Article

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