Transbronchial needle aspiration cytology of subcarinal lymph nodes for the staging procedure in the diagnosis of lung cancer

Respirology

Volumn 11, Issue 6, 2006, Pages 782-785

  Aono, Hiromi ^a,b   Okamoto, Hiroaki ^a   Kunikane, Hiroshi ^a   Nagatomo, Akira ^a   Watanabe, Koshiro ^a   Nagai, Atsushi ^b  

^a YOKOHAMA MUNICIPAL CITIZEN'S HOSPITAL   (Japan)

^b TOKYO WOMEN'S MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Chest computed tomography; Lung cancer; Staging; Subcarinal lymph node; Transbronchial aspiration cytology

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; ASPIRATION CYTOLOGY; CANCER STAGING; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIAGNOSTIC VALUE; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; HUMAN TISSUE; LUNG CANCER; LYMPH NODE; LYMPH NODE METASTASIS; LYMPHADENOPATHY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MINIMALLY INVASIVE SURGERY; NEEDLE BIOPSY; PREOPERATIVE EVALUATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SUBCARINAL LYMPH NODE; TRANSBRONCHIAL NEEDLE ASPIRATION CYTOLOGY;

BIOPSY, FINE-NEEDLE; BRONCHOSCOPY; CARCINOMA, NON-SMALL-CELL LUNG; HUMANS; LUNG NEOPLASMS; LYMPH NODES; LYMPHATIC DISEASES; LYMPHATIC METASTASIS; NEOPLASM STAGING; RADIOGRAPHY, THORACIC; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

EID: 33750090360     PISSN: 13237799     EISSN: 14401843     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1440-1843.2006.00928.x     Document Type: Article

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