EUS Instruments, Room Setup and Assistants

Endoscopic Ultrasonography: Second Edition

Volumn , Issue , 2009, Pages 15-22

  Jacobson, Brian C ^a,b  

^a BOSTON UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^b BOSTON UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Establishing EUS practice and careful decision making; EUS assistants; EUS assistants and cytopathology colleagues; EUS image fed from processor to room's primary monitor and increasing viewing options; EUS instruments and other equipment; EUS instruments, room setup and assistants; Room setup; Ultrasound catheter probes

Indexed keywords

EID: 77952799133     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1002/9781444308099.ch3     Document Type: Chapter

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