Diagnosis and Staging of Lung and Pleural Malignancy - an Overview of Tissue Sampling Techniques and the Implications for Pathological Assessment

Clinical Oncology

Volumn 21, Issue 6, 2009, Pages 451-463

  Andrews, T D ^a   Wallace, W A H ^a  

^a ROYAL INFIRMARY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Diagnosis; lung cancer; pathology; staging; tissue sampling techniques

Indexed keywords

CA 125 ANTIGEN; CYTOKERATIN 20; CYTOKERATIN 7; EOSIN; ESTROGEN RECEPTOR; FLUORODEOXYGLUCOSE; FORMALDEHYDE; HEMATOXYLIN; PARAFFIN; THYROID TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR 1;

ARTICLE; ASPIRATION BIOPSY; CANCER STAGING; COMPUTER ASSISTED EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CYTOLOGY; DEVELOPED COUNTRY; DIAGNOSTIC PROCEDURE; DIFFERENTIAL DIAGNOSIS; ENDOBRONCHIAL ULTRASONOGRAPHY; ENDOSCOPIC BIOPSY; ENDOSCOPIC ECHOGRAPHY; FIBEROPTIC BRONCHOSCOPY; FROZEN SECTION; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; INDIVIDUALIZATION; LUNG BIOPSY; LUNG CANCER; LUNG LAVAGE; LUNG METASTASIS; LUNG NON SMALL CELL CANCER; LUNG SMALL CELL CANCER; LYMPH NODE BIOPSY; MEDIASTINOSCOPY; MEDIASTINUM CANCER; MEDICAL ASSESSMENT; MEDICAL DECISION MAKING; MORBIDITY; MORTALITY; NEEDLE BIOPSY; PATIENT CARE; PLEURA BIOPSY; PLEURA CANCER; PLEURA FLUID; PLEURA MESOTHELIOMA; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SPUTUM CYTODIAGNOSIS; THORACOTOMY; TISSUE FIXATION; TRANSBRONCHIAL BIOPSY;

HUMANS; LUNG NEOPLASMS; NEOPLASM STAGING; PLEURAL NEOPLASMS;

EID: 67649670145     PISSN: 09366555     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.clon.2009.03.006     Document Type: Article

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