Endosonographic elastography in the diagnosis of mediastinal lymph nodes

Endoscopy

Volumn 39, Issue 11, 2007, Pages 952-957

  Janssen, Jan ^a   Dietrich, C F ^b   Will, U ^c   Greiner, L ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WITTEN HERDECKE   (Germany)

^b CARITAS KRANKENHAUS   (Germany)

^c SRH Wald Klinikum   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BENIGN TUMOR; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; ELASTOGRAPHY; ENDOSCOPIC ECHOGRAPHY; FEASIBILITY STUDY; FEMALE; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; MALE; MALIGNANT NEOPLASTIC DISEASE; MEDIASTINUM LYMPH NODE; NEEDLE BIOPSY; NON INVASIVE MEASUREMENT; OBSERVER VARIATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RELIABILITY;

AGED; BIOPSY, FINE-NEEDLE; ENDOSONOGRAPHY; FEASIBILITY STUDIES; FEMALE; HUMANS; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; LYMPH NODES; LYMPHATIC METASTASIS; MALE; MEDIASTINAL NEOPLASMS; MIDDLE AGED; NEOPLASM STAGING; OBSERVER VARIATION; PROBABILITY; SAMPLING STUDIES; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY;

EID: 36849090644     PISSN: 0013726X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1055/s-2007-966946     Document Type: Article

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