Computed tomography-guided percutaneous needle biopsy of indeterminate pulmonary pathology: Efficacy of obtaining a diagnostic sample in immunocompetent and immunocompromised patients

Clinical Lung Cancer

Volumn 11, Issue 4, 2010, Pages 251-256

  Kothary, Nishita ^a   Bartos, Jason ^a   Hwang, Gloria ^a   Dua, Ruchika ^b   Kuo, William ^a   Hofmann, Lawrence ^a  

^a STANFORD UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Fine needle aspiration; Inflammation; Mycobacterial infection; VATS

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CLINICAL EVALUATION; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CONTROLLED STUDY; CYTOLOGY; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; FEMALE; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; IMMUNOCOMPROMISED PATIENT; LUNG BIOPSY; LUNG NODULE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MICROBIOLOGY; NEEDLE BIOPSY; PERCUTANEOUS BIOPSY; ADOLESCENT; IMMUNOCOMPETENCE; IMMUNOLOGY; INTERVENTIONAL RADIOLOGY; LUNG; LUNG NEOPLASMS; MIDDLE AGED; PATHOLOGY; RADIOGRAPHY; VERY ELDERLY; YOUNG ADULT;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; BIOPSY, NEEDLE; FEMALE; HUMANS; IMMUNOCOMPETENCE; IMMUNOCOMPROMISED HOST; LUNG; LUNG NEOPLASMS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; RADIOGRAPHY, INTERVENTIONAL; SOLITARY PULMONARY NODULE; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 77957158298     PISSN: 15257304     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3816/CLC.2010.n.032     Document Type: Article

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