Complications of CT scan-guided lung biopsy: Lesion size and depth matter

Chest

Volumn 126, Issue 3, 2004, Pages 666-668

  Gohari, Arash ^a,b   Haramati, Linda B ^a,b  

^a Albert Einstein College of Medicine ^*

^b ALBERT EINSTEIN COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ASPIRATION BIOPSY; BENIGN TUMOR; BLEEDING; CELL TYPE; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; DIAGNOSTIC PROCEDURE; EDITORIAL; FLUOROSCOPY; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; INCIDENCE; LUNG BIOPSY; MALIGNANT NEOPLASTIC DISEASE; NEEDLE BIOPSY; PLEURA BIOPSY; PLEURA DISEASE; PLEURA EFFUSION; PNEUMOTHORAX; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RISK ASSESSMENT; RISK FACTOR; TUMOR VOLUME;

EID: 4544341912     PISSN: 00123692     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1378/chest.126.3.666     Document Type: Editorial

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