Ultrasound-assisted transthoracic biopsy: Fine-needle aspiration or cutting-needle biopsy?

European Respiratory Journal

Volumn 29, Issue 2, 2007, Pages 357-362

  Diacon, A H ^a,b   Theron, J ^a   Schubert, P ^a   Brundyn, K ^a   Louw, M ^a   Wright, C A ^a   Bolliger, C T ^a  

^a STELLENBOSCH UNIVERSITY   (South Africa)

^b Dept of Internal Medicine ^*  (South Africa)

Author keywords

Cutting needle biopsy; Fine needle aspiration; Lung biopsy; Lung carcinoma; Pleural biopsy; Ultrasound

Indexed keywords

ANALGESIC AGENT;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; ASPIRATION BIOPSY; BENIGN TUMOR; BLEEDING; CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; CYTOLOGY; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; ECHOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HEMOPTYSIS; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; IMAGE ANALYSIS; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; LIPOMA; LUNG ADENOCARCINOMA; LUNG CARCINOMA; LUNG FIBROSIS; LUNG SARCOMA; LUNG SMALL CELL CANCER; LUNG SQUAMOUS CELL CARCINOMA; LUNG TUBERCULOSIS; LYMPHOMA; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; NEEDLE; NEEDLE BIOPSY; PAIN; PATIENT SAFETY; PLEURA MESOTHELIOMA; PNEUMOTHORAX; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROBABILITY; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SURGICAL DRAINAGE; SYNCOPE; TRANSBRONCHIAL BIOPSY; TREATMENT INDICATION; ULTRASOUND SCANNER; UNDIFFERENTIATED CARCINOMA; WEGENER GRANULOMATOSIS;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; BIOPSY, FINE-NEEDLE; BIOPSY, NEEDLE; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; THORACIC NEOPLASMS; ULTRASONOGRAPHY, INTERVENTIONAL;

EID: 33846899718     PISSN: 09031936     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1183/09031936.00077706     Document Type: Article

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