Mediastinal staging of nonsmall cell lung carcinoma by endoscopic and endobronchial ultrasound-guided fine needle aspiration

Journal of Thoracic Imaging

Volumn 26, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 147-161

  McComb, Barbara L ^a   Wallace, Michael B ^a   Pascual, Jorge M ^a   Othman, Mohamed O ^a  

^a MAYO CLINIC   (United States)

Author keywords

endobronchial ultrasound; endobronchial ultrasound guided fine needle aspiration; endobronchial ultrasound guided transbronchial needle aspiration; Endoscopic ultrasound; endoscopic ultrasound guided fine needle aspiration; lung cancer staging

Indexed keywords

ANTINEOPLASTIC AGENT;

ASPIRATION BIOPSY; BRONCHOSPASM; CANCER ADJUVANT THERAPY; CANCER DIAGNOSIS; CANCER STAGING; CLINICAL EVALUATION; CLINICAL TRIAL (TOPIC); COMPUTER ASSISTED EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CONFERENCE PAPER; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; DIAGNOSTIC PROCEDURE; DIAGNOSTIC TEST ACCURACY STUDY; DISEASE SEVERITY; ECHOENDOSCOPE; ENDOBRONCHIAL ULTRASOUND GUIDED FINE NEEDLE ASPIRATION; ENDOSCOPE; ENDOSCOPIC ULTRASOUND GUIDED FINE NEEDLE ASPIRATION; HUMAN; LARYNX SPASM; LUNG NON SMALL CELL CANCER; LYMPH NODE BIOPSY; MEDIASTINITIS; MEDIASTINOSCOPY; MEDIASTINUM; MEDIASTINUM LYMPH NODE; MEDIASTINUM METASTASIS; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PNEUMOMEDIASTINUM; PNEUMOTHORAX; POSITRON EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; PREDICTIVE VALUE; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; RADIOLOGIST; RISK FACTOR; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; THORACOTOMY; TRANSBRONCHIAL ASPIRATION; TRANSBRONCHIAL BIOPSY; TUMOR VOLUME; ULTRASOUND;

BIOPSY, FINE-NEEDLE; CARCINOMA, NON-SMALL-CELL LUNG; ENDOSCOPY; HUMANS; LUNG NEOPLASMS; LYMPH NODES; LYMPHATIC METASTASIS; MEDIASTINUM; NEOPLASM STAGING; ULTRASONOGRAPHY, INTERVENTIONAL;

EID: 79955554221     PISSN: 08835993     EISSN: 15360237     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/RTI.0b013e3182171dc9     Document Type: Conference Paper

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