Endoscopic Ultrasound-Guided Fine-Needle Aspiration: Sampling, Pitfalls, and Quality Management

Clinical Gastroenterology and Hepatology

Volumn 5, Issue 11, 2007, Pages 1248-1254

  Kulesza, Peter ^a   Eltoum, Isam A ^a  

^a University of Alabama at Birmingham   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; ASPIRATION BIOPSY; BILE DUCT CARCINOMA; CANCER STAGING; CELL STRUCTURE; CYTOPATHOLOGY; DIFFERENTIAL DIAGNOSIS; DIGESTIVE SYSTEM INJURY; ENDOSCOPY; ESOPHAGUS; FLOW CYTOMETRY; GASTROINTESTINAL STROMAL TUMOR; HUMAN; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; LEIOMYOMA; LIVER; LOWER ESOPHAGUS SPHINCTER; LUNG CARCINOMA; MEDIASTINUM; NEURILEMOMA; PANCREAS; PANCREAS ADENOCARCINOMA; RECTUM; SOLITARY FIBROUS TUMOR; STOMACH; TOTAL QUALITY MANAGEMENT; ULTRASOUND;

ALGORITHMS; BACTERIAL INFECTIONS; BIOPSY, FINE-NEEDLE; DIAGNOSTIC ERRORS; ENDOSCOPY, GASTROINTESTINAL; GASTROINTESTINAL DISEASES; HUMANS; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; QUALITY ASSURANCE, HEALTH CARE; ULTRASONOGRAPHY, INTERVENTIONAL;

EID: 35548967452     PISSN: 15423565     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.cgh.2007.09.011     Document Type: Article

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