Diagnostic Efficacy and Safety of Computed Tomography-Guided Transthoracic Needle Biopsy in Patients with Hematologic Malignancies

Academic Radiology

Volumn 16, Issue 11, 2009, Pages 1408-1415

  Kallenberg, Marije H ^a   Gill, Ritu R ^a   Factor, Rachel E ^a   Bryar, Julie M ^a   Rubin, Robert H ^a   Jacobson, Francine L ^a   Marty, Francisco M ^a  

^a BRIGHAM AND WOMEN S HOSPITAL   (United States)

Author keywords

Fine needle aspiration; hematologic malignancies; lung biopsy

Indexed keywords

ACTINOMYCOSIS; ADULT; AGED; ALTERNARIA; ANTIMICROBIAL THERAPY; ARTICLE; ASPERGILLOSIS; CANDIDIASIS; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; FEMALE; HEMATOLOGIC MALIGNANCY; HEMOPTYSIS; HUMAN; INFECTION; LUNG CANCER; LYMPHOMA; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MEDICAL RECORD REVIEW; MUCORMYCOSIS; NEUTROPENIA; NOCARDIOSIS; NONHODGKIN LYMPHOMA; PLEURA; PNEUMOTHORAX; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RECURRENT CANCER; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; THORACOTOMY; THROMBOCYTE TRANSFUSION; THROMBOCYTOPENIA; TRANSTHORACIC BIOPSY; TUMOR LOCALIZATION; TUMOR VOLUME;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; BIOPSY, NEEDLE; FEMALE; HEMATOLOGIC NEOPLASMS; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PNEUMOTHORAX; RADIOGRAPHY, INTERVENTIONAL; RADIOGRAPHY, THORACIC; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SURGERY, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

EID: 70349764320     PISSN: 10766332     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.acra.2009.06.008     Document Type: Article

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