Role of EUS for the evaluation of mediastinal adenopathy

Gastrointestinal Endoscopy

Volumn 74, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 239-245

  Jue, Terry L ^a   Sharaf, Ravi N ^a   Appalaneni, Vasundhara ^a   Anderson, Michelle A ^a   Ben Menachem, Tamir ^a   Decker, G Anton ^a   Fanelli, Robert D ^a   Fukami, Norio ^a   Ikenberry, Steven O ^a   Jain, Rajeev ^a   Khan, Khalid M ^a   Krinsky, Mary L ^a   Malpas, Phyllis M ^a   Maple, John T ^a   Fisher, Deborah ^a   Hwang, Joo Ha ^a   Early, Dayna ^a   Evans, John A ^a   Dominitz, Jason A ^a  

^a ASGE Standards of Practice Committee   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADRENAL METASTASIS; ASPIRATION BIOPSY; CANCER STAGING; CLINICAL EVALUATION; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; COST BENEFIT ANALYSIS; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; ENDOBRONCHIAL ULTRASONOGRAPHY; ENDOSCOPIC ECHOGRAPHY; HEALTH CARE QUALITY; HUMAN; LIVER METASTASIS; LUNG CANCER; LYMPHADENOPATHY; LYMPHOMA; MEDIASTINAL ADENOPATHY; MEDIASTINOSCOPY; MEDIASTINUM DISEASE; MEDIASTINUM LYMPH NODE; POSITRON EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; PREDICTIVE VALUE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; SARCOIDOSIS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; TRANSBRONCHIAL ASPIRATION; TRANSTHORACIC ASPIRATION; TUBERCULOSIS; VIDEO ASSISTED THORACOSCOPIC SURGERY;

EID: 79960943897     PISSN: 00165107     EISSN: 10976779     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.gie.2011.03.1255     Document Type: Article

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