Focal hepatic lesions: US-guided biopsy-lessons from review of cytologic and pathologic examination results

Radiology

Volumn 250, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 453-458

  Appelbaum, Liat ^a   Kane, Robert A ^b   Kruskal, Jonathan B ^b   Romero, Janet ^b   Sosna, Jacob ^a,b  

^a HADASSAH HEBREW UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (Israel)

^b BETH ISRAEL DEACONESS MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ASSESSMENT; CYTOLOGY; ECHOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; LIVER BIOPSY; LIVER TUMOR; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MALIGNANT NEOPLASTIC DISEASE; METASTASIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; TUMOR BIOPSY; TUMOR LOCALIZATION; TUMOR VOLUME; CHI SQUARE DISTRIBUTION; ENDOSCOPIC ECHOGRAPHY; LIVER DISEASE; METHODOLOGY; MIDDLE AGED; NEEDLE BIOPSY; NONPARAMETRIC TEST; PATHOLOGY;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; BIOPSY, NEEDLE; CHI-SQUARE DISTRIBUTION; FEMALE; HUMANS; LIVER DISEASES; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; STATISTICS, NONPARAMETRIC; ULTRASONOGRAPHY, INTERVENTIONAL;

EID: 61749101187     PISSN: 00338419     EISSN: 15271315     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1148/radiol.2502080182     Document Type: Article

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