Electromagnetic navigation in lung cancer: Research update

Expert Review of Respiratory Medicine

Volumn 3, Issue 5, 2009, Pages 469-473

  Eberhardt, Ralf ^a   Gompelmann, Daniela ^a   Herth, Felix J F ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HEIDELBERG   (Germany)

Author keywords

Bronchoscopy; Electromagnetic navigation; Lung cancer; Solitary pulmonary nodule; Staging

Indexed keywords

BRONCHOSCOPY; CANCER PATIENT; CANCER STAGING; CLINICAL TRIAL; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; DIAGNOSTIC VALUE; ELECTROMAGNETIC RADIATION; ENDOBRONCHIAL ULTRASONOGRAPHY; FLUOROSCOPY; HUMAN; IMAGE ANALYSIS; IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; LUNG BIOPSY; LUNG CANCER; LUNG NODULE; MEDLINE; PNEUMOTHORAX; REVIEW; TRANSBRONCHIAL BIOPSY; TUMOR LOCALIZATION; TUMOR VOLUME;

EID: 73449130895     PISSN: 17476348     EISSN: 17476356     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1586/ers.09.36     Document Type: Review

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