Diagnostic accuracy of CT-guided percutaneous cutting needle biopsy for thymic tumours

Clinical Radiology

Volumn 61, Issue 9, 2006, Pages 771-775

  Yonemori, K ^a   Tsuta, K ^b   Tateishi, U ^a   Uno, H ^d   Asamura, H ^c   Matsuno, Y ^b   Kusumoto, M ^a  

^a Divisions of Diagnostic Radiology   (Japan)

^b Diagnostic Pathology ^*

^c NATIONAL CANCER CENTER HOSPITAL   (Japan)

^d KITASATO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; FEMALE; GERM CELL TUMOR; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; KAPPA STATISTICS; LYMPHOMA; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MEDIASTINUM TUMOR; NEEDLE BIOPSY; PERCUTANEOUS BIOPSY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RELIABILITY; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; SCHOOL CHILD; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; THYMOMA; THYMUS HYPERPLASIA; TUMOR CLASSIFICATION;

BIOPSY, NEEDLE; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; RADIOGRAPHY, INTERVENTIONAL; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; THYMOMA; THYMUS GLAND; THYMUS NEOPLASMS; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

EID: 33746876009     PISSN: 00099260     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.crad.2006.04.011     Document Type: Article

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