Brave new world for interventional bronchoscopy

Thorax

Volumn 60, Issue 3, 2005, Pages 180-181

  Toma, T P ^a   Geddes, D M ^b   Shah, P L ^b,c  

^a NATIONAL HEART AND LUNG INSTITUTE   (United Kingdom)

^b ROYAL BROMPTON HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

^c CHELSEA AND WESTMINSTER HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTINEOPLASTIC AGENT; POLYMER; STEROID;

ASPIRATION BIOPSY; ASTHMA; BRONCHOSCOPY; BRONCHUS FOREIGN BODY; BRONCHUS SECRETION; CANCER PALLIATIVE THERAPY; CANCER STAGING; CAUTERIZATION; DRUG DELIVERY SYSTEM; ECHOGRAPHY; EDITORIAL; EMPHYSEMA; GENE THERAPY; HUMAN; INTERVENTIONAL RADIOLOGY; LOCAL ANESTHESIA; LUNG CANCER; MEDIASTINOSCOPY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIOFREQUENCY; SAFETY; THERMOPLASTY; TREATMENT INDICATION; TREATMENT OUTCOME; BREATHING DISORDER; DRUG ADMINISTRATION ROUTE; ENDOSCOPIC ECHOGRAPHY; METHODOLOGY; NEEDLE BIOPSY;

BIOPSY, NEEDLE; BRONCHOSCOPY; DRUG ADMINISTRATION ROUTES; HUMANS; NEOPLASM STAGING; RESPIRATION DISORDERS; ULTRASONOGRAPHY, INTERVENTIONAL;

EID: 14944356010     PISSN: 00406376     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1136/thx.2004.029983     Document Type: Editorial

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