Mediastinitis as a complication after fine needle aspiration using ultrasound guided bronchoscopy;Mediastinitis como complicación después de una punción-aspiración con aguja fina guiada por ecobroncoscopia

Archivos de Bronconeumologia

Volumn 46, Issue 10, 2010, Pages 567-568

  Zabaleta, Jon ^a   Izquierdo, José Miguel ^a   Pérez Izquierdo, Julio ^b  

^a HOSPITAL DONOSTIA   (Spain)

^b HOSPITAL DE GALDAKAO   (Spain)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; BRONCHOSCOPY; BRONCHUS CARCINOID; CASE REPORT; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; LABORATORY TEST; LETTER; MEDIASTINITIS; PERICARDITIS; POSITRON EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; SYMPTOMATOLOGY; TRANSTHORACIC ASPIRATION;

BIOPSY, FINE-NEEDLE; BRONCHOSCOPY; FEMALE; HUMANS; MEDIASTINITIS; MIDDLE AGED; ULTRASONOGRAPHY, INTERVENTIONAL;

EID: 77957753443     PISSN: 03002896     EISSN: 15792129     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.arbres.2010.06.004     Document Type: Letter

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