Guidelines for training and practice of interventional pulmonology: By the numbers?

Journal of Bronchology

Volumn 10, Issue 3, 2003, Pages 169-173

  Prakash, Udaya B S ^a  

^a MAYO CLINIC COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BRACHYTHERAPY; BRONCHOSCOPY; CLINICAL PRACTICE; CRYOTHERAPY; EDITORIAL; ENDOSCOPIC THERAPY; FIBEROPTIC BRONCHOSCOPY; HUMAN; INTERVENTIONAL RADIOLOGY; LASER COAGULATION; MEDICAL SPECIALIST; PHOTODYNAMIC THERAPY; PHYSICIAN; PLEURA BIOPSY; PRACTICE GUIDELINE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; STENT; THORACOSCOPY; THORAX DRAINAGE; TRAINING;

EID: 0141565080     PISSN: 10708030     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/00128594-200307000-00001     Document Type: Editorial

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