The importance of ultrasound in staging and gaining a pathological diagnosis in patients with lung cancerda two year single centre experience

Thorax

Volumn 66, Issue 5, 2011, Pages 414-417

  Hoosein, M M ^a   Barnes, D ^a   Khan, A N ^a   Peake, M D ^a   Bennett, J ^a   Purnell, D ^a   Free, C ^a   Entwisle, J J ^b  

^a GLENFIELD HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

^b WELLINGTON HOSPITAL   (New Zealand)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; ASPIRATION BIOPSY; BONE LESION; CANCER STAGING; CYTODIAGNOSIS; DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; LIVER INJURY; LUNG ASPIRATION; LUNG BIOPSY; LUNG CANCER; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; METASTASIS; NECK; PLEURA CAVITY; PLEURA EFFUSION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; THORAX WALL; ULTRASOUND;

EID: 79955028606     PISSN: 00406376     EISSN: 14683296     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1136/thx.2010.153288     Document Type: Article

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