A randomized controlled trial of electrocoagulation-enabled biopsy versus conventional biopsy in the diagnosis of endobronchial lesions

Respiration

Volumn 81, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 129-133

  Khan, Ajmal ^a   Aggarwal, Ashutosh N ^a   Agarwal, Ritesh ^a   Bal, Amanjit ^a   Gupta, Dheeraj ^a  

^a POSTGRADUATE INSTITUTE OF MEDICAL EDUCATION AND RESEARCH   (India)

Author keywords

Bronchoscopy; Electrocautery; Endobronchial biopsy

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BIOPSY TECHNIQUE; BLEEDING; BRONCHUS BIOPSY; BRONCHUS DISEASE; ELECTROCOAGULATION ENABLED BIOPSY; ENDOBRONCHIAL LESION; FEMALE; FIBEROPTIC BRONCHOSCOPY; FORCEPS; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUALITY CONTROL; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; SINGLE BLIND PROCEDURE; VISUAL ANALOG SCALE;

ADULT; AGED; BIOPSY; BRONCHI; BRONCHOSCOPY; ELECTROCOAGULATION; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; POSTOPERATIVE HEMORRHAGE; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES;

EID: 79951681213     PISSN: 00257931     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1159/000320262     Document Type: Article

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