Role of endobronchial ultrasound-guided transbronchial needle aspiration for mediastinal lymph node staging of lung cancer

Thoracic Cancer

Volumn 1, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 2-3

  Lim, Eric ^a   Shah, Pallav L ^a  

^a ROYAL BROMPTON HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

BRONCHOSCOPE; CANCER RADIOTHERAPY; CANCER STAGING; CANCER SURGERY; CHEMORADIOTHERAPY; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; EDITORIAL; ENDOBRONCHIAL ULTRASONOGRAPHY; HUMAN; LUNG CANCER; MEDIASTINUM LYMPH NODE; MEDICAL LITERATURE; OVERALL SURVIVAL; POSITRON EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROGRESSION FREE SURVIVAL; THORACOTOMY; TRANSBRONCHIAL ASPIRATION; BRONCHOSCOPY; ENDOSCOPIC ULTRASOUND GUIDED FINE NEEDLE BIOPSY; FINE NEEDLE ASPIRATION BIOPSY; LUNG TUMOR; LYMPH NODE; PATHOLOGY; PROCEDURES;

BIOPSY, FINE-NEEDLE; BRONCHOSCOPY; ENDOSCOPIC ULTRASOUND-GUIDED FINE NEEDLE ASPIRATION; HUMANS; LUNG NEOPLASMS; LYMPH NODES; NEOPLASM STAGING;

EID: 77952814147     PISSN: 17597706     EISSN: 17597714     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1759-7714.2010.00004.x     Document Type: Editorial

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