Image-guided pleural biopsy: diagnostic yield and complications

Clinical Radiology

Volumn 61, Issue 8, 2006, Pages 700-705

  Benamore, R E ^a   Scott, K ^a   Richards, C J ^a   Entwisle, J J ^a  

^a GLENFIELD HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; B CELL LYMPHOMA; BLEEDING; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING; DIAGNOSTIC VALUE; ECHOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HISTOLOGY; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; HUMAN TISSUE; INFORMATION PROCESSING; LUNG ADENOCARCINOMA; LUNG NON SMALL CELL CANCER; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MALIGNANT NEOPLASTIC DISEASE; MEDICAL DOCUMENTATION; PLEURA BIOPSY; PLEURA DISEASE; PLEURA MESOTHELIOMA; PNEUMOTHORAX; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; SAFETY; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SPINDLE CELL CARCINOMA; SQUAMOUS CELL CARCINOMA; THORAX RADIOGRAPHY; TUBERCULOSIS;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; BIOPSY, NEEDLE; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PLEURA; PLEURAL DISEASES; RADIOGRAPHY, INTERVENTIONAL; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED; ULTRASONOGRAPHY, INTERVENTIONAL;

EID: 33745950321     PISSN: 00099260     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.crad.2006.05.002     Document Type: Article

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