Use and abuse of lung biopsy

Advances in Anatomic Pathology

Volumn 12, Issue 4, 2005, Pages 195-202

  Gal, Anthony A ^a  

^a Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine ^*  (United States)

Author keywords

Artifacts; Lung; Open lung biopsy; Pulmonary pathology; Transbronchial lung biopsy

Indexed keywords

ALLERGIC PNEUMONITIS; ARTIFACT; BRONCHIOLITIS; CAPILLARITIS; DIAGNOSTIC VALUE; DRUG TOXICITY; ENDOSCOPIC SURGERY; EOSINOPHILIC GRANULOMA; GOODPASTURE SYNDROME; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; INTERSTITIAL PNEUMONIA; LOEFFLER PNEUMONIA; LUNG ALVEOLUS PROTEINOSIS; LUNG BIOPSY; LUNG CANCER; LUNG DISEASE; LUNG HEMORRHAGE; LUNG INFECTION; LUNG METASTASIS; LUNG SARCOIDOSIS; LUNG TRANSPLANTATION; OPEN LUNG BIOPSY; OPPORTUNISTIC INFECTION; PNEUMONIA; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; THORACOSCOPY; TRANSBRONCHIAL BIOPSY; WEGENER GRANULOMATOSIS;

ANIMALS; ARTIFACTS; BIOPSY; BRONCHOSCOPY; DIAGNOSIS, DIFFERENTIAL; DIAGNOSTIC ERRORS; HISTORY, 19TH CENTURY; HISTORY, 20TH CENTURY; HUMANS; LUNG; LUNG DISEASES; OBSERVER VARIATION; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; THORACIC SURGERY; THORACOSCOPY; VIDEO-ASSISTED SURGERY;

EID: 24044452200     PISSN: 10724109     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/01.pap.0000175116.40294.83     Document Type: Review

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