Central intranodal blood vessel: a new EUS sign described in mediastinal lymph nodes

Gastrointestinal Endoscopy

Volumn 65, Issue 4, 2007, Pages 602-608

  Sawhney, Mandeep S ^a   Debold, Steven M ^a   Kratzke, Robert A ^a   Lederle, Frank A ^a   Nelson, Douglas B ^a   Kelly, Rosemary F ^a  

^a HARVARD MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BLOOD FLOW; BLOOD VESSEL DIAMETER; BLOOD VESSEL WALL; CANCER DIAGNOSIS; CANCER STAGING; CLINICAL EVALUATION; COHORT ANALYSIS; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; ENDOSCOPIC ECHOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HUMAN; LUNG CANCER; LYMPHOMA; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MEDIASTINUM LYMPH NODE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; VALIDATION PROCESS;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ENDOSONOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HUMANS; LUNG NEOPLASMS; LYMPH NODES; LYMPHATIC METASTASIS; MALE; MEDIASTINUM; MIDDLE AGED; PREDICTIVE VALUE OF TESTS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES;

EID: 33947408118     PISSN: 00165107     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.gie.2006.11.057     Document Type: Article

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