Utility of immediate evaluation of endoscopic ultrasound-guided transesophageal fine needle aspiration of mediastinal lymph nodes

Acta Cytologica

Volumn 48, Issue 5, 2004, Pages 630-634

  Emery, Shawn Clark ^a,b   Savides, Thomas J ^a,b   Behling, Cynthia A ^a,b,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b Department of Pathology ^*

^c UCSD MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Aspiration biopsy; Endoscopic ultrasonography; Esophagus; Immediate cytologic evaluation; Lymph nodes; Mediastinum

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; ASPIRATION BIOPSY; BIOPSY TECHNIQUE; CYTODIAGNOSIS; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; DIAGNOSTIC TEST; ENDOSCOPIC ECHOGRAPHY; EVALUATION; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; LYMPH NODE BIOPSY; LYMPHADENOPATHY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MEDIASTINUM LYMPH NODE; PARAMETER; PREDICTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REPRODUCIBILITY; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY;

EID: 4644336003     PISSN: 00015547     EISSN: 19382650     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1159/000326433     Document Type: Article

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