Guidelines for radiologically guided lung biopsy

Thorax

Volumn 58, Issue 11, 2003, Pages 920-936

  Manhire, A ^a,b,c,e   Charig, M ^a,c,e   Clelland, C ^d   Gleeson, F ^a,b,e   Miller, R ^b   Moss, H ^a,b,e   Pointon, K ^a,b,e   Richardson, C ^b   Sawicka, E ^b  

^a ROYAL COLLEGE OF RADIOLOGISTS   (United Kingdom)

^b BRITISH THORACIC SOCIETY   (United Kingdom)

^c British Society of Interventional Radiology   (United Kingdom)

^d Royal College of Pathologists   (United Kingdom)

^e British Society of Chest Radiologists   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACETYLSALICYLIC ACID; ANTICOAGULANT AGENT; ANTICONVULSIVE AGENT; STEROID;

AIR EMBOLISM; AMBULATORY CARE; BLOOD CLOTTING; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CYTOPATHOLOGY; DIAGNOSIS; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; DIAGNOSTIC CONTRAINDICATION; DIAGNOSTIC INDICATION; FORCED EXPIRATORY VOLUME; HEMATOTHORAX; HEMOPTYSIS; HUMAN; IMMUNOCYTOCHEMISTRY; INFORMED CONSENT; LUNG BIOPSY; LUNG FUNCTION; LUNG HEMORRHAGE; MEDICAL STAFF; MORBIDITY; MORTALITY; NEEDLE; OUTPATIENT CARE; PARTIAL THROMBOPLASTIN TIME; PATIENT POSITIONING; PNEUMOTHORAX; POSTOPERATIVE PERIOD; PRACTICE GUIDELINE; PREOPERATIVE EVALUATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTECTIVE CLOTHING; PROTHROMBIN TIME; RADIOLOGY; REVIEW; SAMPLING; SEDATION; SPIROMETRY; TECHNIQUE; THORAX RADIOGRAPHY; THROMBOCYTE COUNT;

AMBULATORY SURGICAL PROCEDURES; BIOPSY; CONSCIOUS SEDATION; HUMANS; LUNG; LUNG DISEASES; MEDICAL STAFF, HOSPITAL; NEEDLES; PATIENT EDUCATION; PNEUMOTHORAX; POSTOPERATIVE HEMORRHAGE; PREOPERATIVE CARE; RADIOGRAPHY, INTERVENTIONAL; REFERRAL AND CONSULTATION; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

EID: 0242693998     PISSN: 00406376     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1136/thorax.58.11.920     Document Type: Review

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