Nonbronchoscopic invasive diagnosis of pneumonia

Clinical Pulmonary Medicine

Volumn 3, Issue 5, 1996, Pages 249-257

  Dorca, Jordi ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BARCELONA   (Spain)

^b HOSPITAL UNIVERSITARI DE BELLVITGE   (Spain)

Author keywords

Evaluation; Invasive diagnostic techniques; Pneumonia; Transthoracic needle aspiration; Transtracheal aspiration

Indexed keywords

EID: 0343888513     PISSN: 10680640     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/00045413-199609000-00002     Document Type: Article

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