A new thin-type bronchoscope improves diagnostic accuracy of peripheral pulmonary carcinoma

Oncology Reports

Volumn 10, Issue 2, 2003, Pages 387-389

  Iyoda, Akira ^a   Suzuki, Makoto ^a   Chiyo, Masako ^a   Moriya, Yasumitsu ^a   Yasufuku, Kazuhiro ^a   Yoshida, Shigetoshi ^a   Sekine, Yasuo ^a   Shibuya, Kiyoshi ^a   Iizasa, Toshihiko ^a   Saitoh, Yukio ^a   Hiroshima, Kenzo ^a   Baba, Masayuki ^a   Fujisawa, Takehiko ^a  

^a CHIBA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Bronchoscope; Pulmonary carcinoma

Indexed keywords

ADENOCARCINOMA; AGED; ARTICLE; BRONCHOSCOPE; BRONCHOSCOPY; CANCER STAGING; FEMALE; HUMAN; LARGE CELL CARCINOMA; LUNG CARCINOMA; LUNG TUMOR; MALE; METHODOLOGY; MIDDLE AGED; NEEDLE BIOPSY; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SQUAMOUS CELL CARCINOMA;

ADENOCARCINOMA; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; BIOPSY, NEEDLE; BRONCHOSCOPES; BRONCHOSCOPY; CARCINOMA, BRONCHOGENIC; CARCINOMA, LARGE CELL; CARCINOMA, SQUAMOUS CELL; FEMALE; HUMANS; LUNG NEOPLASMS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NEOPLASM STAGING; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY;

EID: 18544410264     PISSN: 1021335X     EISSN: 17912431     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3892/or.10.2.387     Document Type: Article

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