Blind transbronchial needle aspiration without an on-site cytopathologist: Experience of 473 procedures

National Medical Journal of India

Volumn 24, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 136-139

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

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

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BRONCHOSCOPY; CONTROLLED STUDY; CYTODIAGNOSIS; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; FEMALE; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; LOCAL ANESTHESIA; LUNG CANCER; LUNG CARCINOMA; LUNG SARCOIDOSIS; LUNG TUBERCULOSIS; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MEDIASTINUM LYMPH NODE; PATIENT SAFETY; PNEUMOTHORAX; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; TRANSBRONCHIAL ASPIRATION; TRANSBRONCHIAL BIOPSY;

ADULT; BIOPSY, NEEDLE; BRONCHOSCOPY; FEMALE; HUMANS; LUNG DISEASES; LUNG NEOPLASMS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SARCOIDOSIS; TUBERCULOSIS, PULMONARY;

EID: 79960816817     PISSN: 0970258X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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