Population-based risk for complications after transthoracic needle lung biopsy of a pulmonary nodule: An analysis of discharge records

Annals of Internal Medicine

Volumn 155, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 137-144

  Wiener, Renda Soylemez ^a   Schwartz, Lisa M ^a   Woloshin, Steven ^a   Gilbert Welch, H ^a  

^a BOSTON UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; AGING; ARTICLE; ARTIFICIAL VENTILATION; BLEEDING; BLOOD TRANSFUSION; CHRONIC OBSTRUCTIVE LUNG DISEASE; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; FEMALE; HUMAN; LENGTH OF STAY; LUNG NODULE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MEDICAL RECORD REVIEW; PNEUMOTHORAX; POPULATION RESEARCH; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RESPIRATORY FAILURE; RISK ASSESSMENT; RISK FACTOR; SMOKING; TRANSTHORACIC BIOPSY; TUBE;

EID: 79961037018     PISSN: 00034819     EISSN: 15393704     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.7326/0003-4819-155-3-201108020-00003     Document Type: Article

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