The diagnostic yield and safety of ultrasound-assisted transthoracic fine-needle aspiration of drowned lung

Respiration

Volumn 81, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 26-31

  Koegelenberg, Coenraad F N ^a   Bolliger, Chris T ^a   Irusen, Elvis M ^a   Wright, Colleen A ^b   Louw, Mercia ^b   Schubert, Pawel T ^b   Diacon, Andreas H ^a  

^a STELLENBOSCH UNIVERSITY   (South Africa)

^b STELLENBOSCH UNIVERSITY   (South Africa)

Author keywords

Drowned lung; Lung cancer; Transthoracic fine needle aspiration; Ultrasound

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CANCER DIAGNOSIS; CLINICAL TRIAL; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; DIAGNOSTIC TEST ACCURACY STUDY; DIAGNOSTIC VALUE; DROWNED LUNG; ECHOGRAPHY; FEASIBILITY STUDY; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; LARGE CELL CARCINOMA; LUNG ADENOCARCINOMA; LUNG CARCINOMA; LUNG DISEASE; LUNG HEMORRHAGE; LUNG SMALL CELL CANCER; LUNG SQUAMOUS CELL CARCINOMA; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; NODULAR SCLEROSIS HODGKIN LYMPHOMA; PATIENT SAFETY; PLEURA; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; PULMONOLOGY; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; TRANSTHORACIC ASPIRATION; UNDIFFERENTIATED CARCINOMA;

AGED; BIOPSY, FINE-NEEDLE; CARCINOMA, BRONCHOGENIC; DIAGNOSTIC TECHNIQUES, RESPIRATORY SYSTEM; HEMORRHAGE; HUMANS; LUNG; LUNG NEOPLASMS; LYMPHOMA; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PULMONARY ATELECTASIS; PULMONARY EDEMA; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED; ULTRASONOGRAPHY, INTERVENTIONAL;

EID: 78650515648     PISSN: 00257931     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1159/000319576     Document Type: Article

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