Diagnosis of intrathoracic lesions: are sequential fine-needle aspiration (FNA) and core needle biopsy (CNB) combined better than either investigation alone?

Clinical Radiology

Volumn 62, Issue 3, 2007, Pages 221-226

  Aviram, G ^a   Greif, J ^a   Man, A ^a   Schwarz, Y ^a   Marmor, S ^a   Graif, M ^a   Blachar, A ^a  

^a TEL AVIV SOURASKY MEDICAL CENTER   (Israel)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; ASPIRATION BIOPSY; BENIGN TUMOR; BRONCHOSCOPY; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING; FALSE NEGATIVE RESULT; FALSE POSITIVE RESULT; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; HEMOPTYSIS; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MALIGNANT NEOPLASTIC DISEASE; MEDIASTINOSCOPY; NEEDLE BIOPSY; PNEUMOTHORAX; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE; THORACOTOMY; THORAX TUMOR;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; BIOPSY, FINE-NEEDLE; BIOPSY, NEEDLE; EPIDEMIOLOGIC METHODS; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; RADIOGRAPHY, INTERVENTIONAL; THORACIC NEOPLASMS; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

EID: 33846798042     PISSN: 00099260     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.crad.2006.11.003     Document Type: Article

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