Complications of CT-guided percutaneous needle biopsy of the chest: Prevention and management

American Journal of Roentgenology

Volumn 196, Issue 6, 2011, Pages

  Wu, Carol C ^a   Maher, Michael M ^b   Shepard, Jo Anne O ^a  

^a MASSACHUSETTS GENERAL HOSPITAL   (United States)

^b University College Cork and INFANT Centre   (Ireland)

Author keywords

Complications; CT guided biopsy; Diagnosis of lung cancer; Lung biopsy; Lung cancer

Indexed keywords

AIR EMBOLISM; BREATHING; CHRONIC OBSTRUCTIVE LUNG DISEASE; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; COUGHING; HEMOPTYSIS; HUMAN; LUNG FUNCTION TEST; LUNG HEMORRHAGE; NEEDLE BIOPSY; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PATIENT POSITIONING; PERCUTANEOUS NEEDLE BIOPSY; PLEURA MESOTHELIOMA; PNEUMOTHORAX; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; RISK FACTOR; THORAX RADIOGRAPHY; THYMOMA; TUBE; TUMOR SEEDING;

BIOPSY, NEEDLE; EMBOLISM, AIR; HEMORRHAGE; HUMANS; LUNG NEOPLASMS; NEOPLASM SEEDING; PNEUMOTHORAX; RADIOGRAPHY, INTERVENTIONAL; RISK FACTORS; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

EID: 79960497280     PISSN: 0361803X     EISSN: 15463141     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2214/AJR.10.4659     Document Type: Review

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