EUS-guided fine needle aspiration of the liver: Indications, yield, and safety based on an international survey of 167 cases

Gastrointestinal Endoscopy

Volumn 55, Issue 7, 2002, Pages 859-862

  TenBerge, Jorgen ^a   Hoffman, Brenda J ^a   Hawes, Robert H ^a   Van Enckevort, Conny ^a   Giovannini, Marc ^a   Erickson, Richard A ^a   Catalano, Marc F ^a   Fogel, Roberto ^a   Mallery, Shawn ^a   Faigel, Douglas O ^a   Ferrari, Angelo P ^a   Waxman, Irving ^a   Palazzo, Larent ^a   Ben Menachem, Tamir ^a   Jowell, Paul S ^a   McGrath, Kevin M ^a   Kowalski, Thomas E ^a   Nguyen, Cuong C ^a   Wassef, Wahid Y ^a   Yamao, Keiji ^a   Chak, Amitabh ^a   Greenwald, Bruce D ^a   Woodward, Timothy A ^a   Vilmann, Peter ^a   Sabbagh, Luis ^a   Wallace, Michael B ^a,b   more..

^a CSB ^*

^b MEDICAL UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH CAROLINA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; ASPIRATION BIOPSY; BILIARY TRACT INFECTION; BLEEDING; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEATH; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; ENDOSCOPIC ECHOGRAPHY; FEVER; HUMAN; LIVER BIOPSY; LIVER INJURY; LIVER TUMOR; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; PAIN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSTHESIS FAILURE; SAFETY; SEPSIS; STENT; TUMOR; CLINICAL TRIAL; DIGESTIVE TRACT ENDOSCOPY; ECHOGRAPHY; EPIDEMIOLOGY; HEALTH PERSONNEL ATTITUDE; INTERNATIONAL COOPERATION; LIVER; METASTASIS; MULTICENTER STUDY; NEEDLE BIOPSY; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PATHOLOGY; REPRODUCIBILITY; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY;

ATTITUDE OF HEALTH PERSONNEL; BIOPSY, NEEDLE; ENDOSCOPY, DIGESTIVE SYSTEM; ENDOSONOGRAPHY; HEALTH CARE SURVEYS; HUMANS; INTERNATIONAL COOPERATION; LIVER; LIVER NEOPLASMS; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT (HEALTH CARE); REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY;

EID: 19044391691     PISSN: 00165107     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1067/mge.2002.124557     Document Type: Article

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