Indications, diagnostic yields and complications of transbronchial biopsy over 5 years in the State of Qatar

Saudi Medical Journal

Volumn 26, Issue 4, 2005, Pages 641-645

  Ibrahim, Abdulsalam S ^a   Allangawi, Mona H ^a   Sattar, Hisham A ^a   Mobyed, Hassan S ^a   Almohammed, Ahmed A ^a  

^a HAMAD MEDICAL CORPORATION   (Qatar)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMIODARONE;

ADULT; AGED; BLEEDING; BRONCHIOLITIS OBLITERANS ORGANIZING PNEUMONIA; BRONCHUS MUCOSA; CARCINOMATOSIS; CONNECTIVE TISSUE DISEASE; DIAGNOSTIC VALUE; DRUG TOXICITY; EXPERIENCE; FEMALE; FIBEROPTIC BRONCHOSCOPY; GENERAL HOSPITAL; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; LOEFFLER PNEUMONIA; LUNG CANCER; LUNG DISEASE; LUNG FIBROSIS; LUNG GRANULOMA; LUNG INFILTRATE; LUNG SARCOIDOSIS; LUNG TUBERCULOSIS; LYMPHANGITIS; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MEDICAL RECORD; MILIARY TUBERCULOSIS; PNEUMOTHORAX; QATAR; RELIABILITY; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; REVIEW; SAFETY; SAMPLING; SEPSIS; SPUTUM SMEAR; THORAX RADIOGRAPHY; TRANSBRONCHIAL BIOPSY;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; BIOPSY; FEMALE; HUMANS; LUNG DISEASES; MALE; MEDICAL AUDIT; MIDDLE AGED; QATAR; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES;

EID: 19044367303     PISSN: 03795284     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Review

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