Endobronchial ultrasound-guided fine-needle aspiration and liquid-based thin-layer cytology

Journal of Clinical Pathology

Volumn 60, Issue 4, 2007, Pages 388-391

  Wallace, W A H ^a,b   Monaghan, H M ^b   Salter, D M ^b   Gibbons, M A ^b   Skwarski, K M ^b  

^a ROYAL INFIRMARY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; ASPIRATION BIOPSY; BRONCHOSCOPY; CANCER CLASSIFICATION; CANCER STAGING; CONTROLLED STUDY; CYTOLOGY; DIAGNOSTIC PROCEDURE; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; LUNG CANCER; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; ULTRASOUND;

ADENOCARCINOMA; ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; BIOPSY, FINE-NEEDLE; CARCINOMA, NON-SMALL-CELL LUNG; CARCINOMA, SMALL CELL; CARCINOMA, SQUAMOUS CELL; FEMALE; HUMANS; LUNG NEOPLASMS; LYMPHATIC METASTASIS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NEOPLASM STAGING; ULTRASONOGRAPHY, INTERVENTIONAL;

EID: 34247129518     PISSN: 00219746     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1136/jcp.2006.038901     Document Type: Article

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