Esophageal ultrasound-controlled fine needle aspiration for staging of mediastinal lymph nodes in patients with resectable lung cancer: Do we always see the reality?

Journal of Thoracic Oncology

Volumn 4, Issue 8, 2009, Pages 1043-1045

  Dooms, Christophe ^a   Vansteenkiste, Johan ^a   Renterghem, Dirk Van ^b   Leyn, Paul De ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY HOSPITALS LEUVEN   (Belgium)

^b AZ Sint Jan Brugge ^*  (Belgium)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ASPIRATION BIOPSY; ASPIRATION CYTOLOGY; CANCER STAGING; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; ENDOSCOPIC ECHOGRAPHY; ESOPHAGUS; HUMAN; LETTER; LUNG CANCER; LUNG PARENCHYMA; MEDIASTINUM LYMPH NODE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; ULTRASOUND;

EID: 68349091276     PISSN: 15560864     EISSN: 15561380     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/JTO.0b013e3181ad81ac     Document Type: Letter

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