Diagnostic yield of percutaneous image-guided tissue biopsy of focal hepatic lesions in cancer patients: Ten percent are not metastases from the primary malignancy

Cancer

Volumn 117, Issue 17, 2011, Pages 4041-4048

  Elsayes, Khaled M ^a,b   Ellis, James H ^a   Elkhouly, Tohamy ^a,c   Ream, Justin M ^a   Bowerson, Michyla ^a   Khan, Asra ^a   Caoili, Elaine M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN HEALTH SYSTEM   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS   (United States)

^c BENHA UNIVERSITY   (Egypt)

Author keywords

biopsy; diagnostic yield; hepatic lesions; liver

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BENIGN TUMOR; BREAST CANCER; COLORECTAL CANCER; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIAGNOSTIC VALUE; ESOPHAGUS CANCER; FEMALE; HUMAN; LIVER BIOPSY; LIVER CANCER; LIVER METASTASIS; LUNG CANCER; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MELANOMA; PANCREAS CANCER; PERCUTANEOUS BIOPSY; PERCUTANEOUS IMAGE GUIDED TISSUE BIOPSY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; UROGENITAL TRACT CANCER;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; BIOPSY, NEEDLE; DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING; FEMALE; HUMANS; LIVER; LIVER NEOPLASMS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NEOPLASM STAGING; NEOPLASMS, SECOND PRIMARY; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; TOMOGRAPHY, EMISSION-COMPUTED;

EID: 80051945070     PISSN: 0008543X     EISSN: 10970142     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/cncr.25980     Document Type: Article

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