Identification of Small Lung Nodules: Technique of Radiotracer-Guided Thoracoscopic Biopsy

Annals of Thoracic Surgery

Volumn 85, Issue 2, 2008, Pages

  Grogan, Eric L ^a   Jones, David R ^a   Kozower, Benjamin D ^a   Simmons, Winsor D ^a   Daniel, Thomas M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALBUMIN TC 99M; TECHNETIUM 99M;

ARTICLE; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CONTROLLED STUDY; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; LABORATORY TEST; LUNG BIOPSY; LUNG CANCER; LUNG NODULE; LUNG PARENCHYMA; LYMPHOMA; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; METASTASIS; MORBIDITY; MORTALITY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIODIAGNOSIS; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE; THORACOSCOPY; THORACOTOMY;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ANIMALS; BIOPSY, NEEDLE; COIN LESION, PULMONARY; DISEASE MODELS, ANIMAL; FEMALE; HUMANS; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; LUNG NEOPLASMS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; RADIOGRAPHY, INTERVENTIONAL; RADIOPHARMACEUTICALS; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RISK ASSESSMENT; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; TECHNETIUM TC 99M AGGREGATED ALBUMIN; THORACOSCOPY; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

EID: 38349114799     PISSN: 00034975     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.athoracsur.2007.10.105     Document Type: Article

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