Ultrasound guided percutaneous fine needle aspiration biopsy/automated needle core biopsy of abdominal lesions: Effect on management and cost effectiveness

Annals of African Medicine

Volumn 10, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 133-138

  Gani, M Shafee ^a   Shafee, Aaisha M ^a   Soliman, I Y ^a  

^a Al Jedaani Hospital   (Saudi Arabia)

Author keywords

Biopsy; cost effectiveness; effect on diagnosis; effect on treatment; percutaneous fine needle aspiration biopsy; percutaneous needle core biopsy; ultrasound

Indexed keywords

ABDOMINAL DISEASE; ABDOMINAL MASS; ADOLESCENT; ADRENAL GLAND; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; ASPIRATION BIOPSY; BLADDER; CHILD; COST CONTROL; COST EFFECTIVENESS ANALYSIS; DIAGNOSTIC TEST; DIAGNOSTIC TEST ACCURACY STUDY; FEMALE; GASTROINTESTINAL TRACT; HEPATOBILIARY SYSTEM; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMAN; INFANT; KIDNEY; LENGTH OF STAY; LIVER; LYMPH NODE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MORBIDITY; MORTALITY; NEEDLE BIOPSY; OVARY; PANCREAS; PATIENT SELECTION; PRESCHOOL CHILD; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; PROSTATE; RETROPERITONEUM; SCHOOL CHILD; SPLEEN; TRANSRECTAL ULTRASONOGRAPHY; TRANSVAGINAL ECHOGRAPHY; ULTRASOUND GUIDED PERCUTANEOUS FINE NEEDLE ASPIRATION BIOPSY; ULTRASOUND GUIDED PERCUTANEOUS NEEDLE CORE BIOPSY;

ABDOMINAL NEOPLASMS; ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; BIOPSY, FINE-NEEDLE; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; COST-BENEFIT ANALYSIS; FEMALE; HOSPITALS, TEACHING; HUMANS; INFANT; MIDDLE AGED; SAUDI ARABIA; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; ULTRASONOGRAPHY, INTERVENTIONAL; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 79959982545     PISSN: 15963519     EISSN: 09755764     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.4103/1596-3519.82080     Document Type: Article

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