Cytology on Transbronchial Needle Aspiration (TBNA): Not only for lung cancer

Anticancer Research

Volumn 30, Issue 11, 2010, Pages 4769-4772

  Bruno, Pierdonato ^a   Pisani, Lara ^a   Ricci, Alberto ^a   Falasca, Carlo ^a   Giarnieri, Enrico ^a   Mariotta, Salvatore ^a   Giovagnoli, Maria Rosaria ^a  

^a SAPIENZA UNIVERSITY OF ROME   (Italy)

Author keywords

Fiberbronchoscopy; Mediastinal lymphadenopathies; Metastasis; Transbronchial needle aspiration

Indexed keywords

BLEOMYCIN; CISPLATIN; EPIRUBICIN; NAVELBINE;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; ASPIRATION CYTOLOGY; CANCER COMBINATION CHEMOTHERAPY; CANCER DIAGNOSIS; CANCER STAGING; CANCER SURGERY; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CLINICAL ASSESSMENT; CLINICAL EFFECTIVENESS; COST BENEFIT ANALYSIS; COUGHING; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; DIAGNOSTIC VALUE; DYSPHAGIA; EPIGASTRIC PAIN; FEMALE; HUMAN; HYSTERECTOMY; LUNG CANCER; MALE; MESOTHELIOMA; METASTASIS; PANCREAS ADENOCARCINOMA; PELVIS LYMPHADENECTOMY; PERICARDIOCENTESIS; PLEURA MESOTHELIOMA; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEMINOMA; THORACOCENTESIS; TRANSBRONCHIAL ASPIRATION; UTERINE CERVIX CARCINOMA; VOMITING;

ADULT; AGED; BIOPSY, FINE-NEEDLE; BRONCHOSCOPY; CYTODIAGNOSIS; FEMALE; HUMANS; LYMPHATIC METASTASIS; MALE; MEDIASTINAL NEOPLASMS; MESOTHELIOMA; MIDDLE AGED; PANCREATIC NEOPLASMS; PLEURAL NEOPLASMS; PROGNOSIS; SEMINOMA; TESTICULAR NEOPLASMS; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED; UTERINE CERVICAL NEOPLASMS;

EID: 78650229362     PISSN: 02507005     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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