Endobronchial Ultrasound-Guided Fine-Needle Aspiration of Mediastinal Lymph Nodes: A Single Institution's Early Learning Curve

Annals of Thoracic Surgery

Volumn 86, Issue 4, 2008, Pages 1104-1110

  Groth, Shawn S ^a   Whitson, Bryan A ^a   D'Cunha, Jonathan ^a   Maddaus, Michael A ^a   Alsharif, Mariam ^a   Andrade, Rafael S ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; ASPIRATION BIOPSY; BENIGN TUMOR; CANCER DIAGNOSIS; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; ENDOBRONCHIAL ULTRASONOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HUMAN; LYMPHADENOPATHY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MALIGNANT NEOPLASTIC DISEASE; MEDIASTINUM LYMPH NODE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; THORAX CANCER;

ADULT; BIOPSY, FINE-NEEDLE; CLINICAL COMPETENCE; EDUCATION, MEDICAL, CONTINUING; ENDOSONOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HUMANS; LYMPH NODES; MALE; MEDIASTINAL NEOPLASMS; MEDIASTINUM; NEOPLASM INVASIVENESS; PROBABILITY; REGISTRIES; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY;

EID: 52049112330     PISSN: 00034975     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.athoracsur.2008.06.042     Document Type: Article

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