Efficacy and safety of convex probe EBUS-TBNA in sarcoidosis: A systematic review and meta-analysis

Respiratory Medicine

Volumn 106, Issue 6, 2012, Pages 883-892

  Agarwal, Ritesh ^a   Srinivasan, Arjun ^a   Aggarwal, Ashutosh N ^a   Gupta, Dheeraj ^a  

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

Author keywords

EBUS; Endobronchial ultrasound; Meta analysis; Sarcoidosis; TBNA; Transbronchial needle aspiration

Indexed keywords

CYTOLOGY; DIAGNOSTIC PROCEDURE; EMBASE; ENDOBRONCHIAL ULTRASONOGRAPHY; GEOGRAPHY; HUMAN; INFORMATION RETRIEVAL; MEDLINE; META ANALYSIS (TOPIC); PRIORITY JOURNAL; PUBLISHING; QUALITY CONTROL; REVIEW; SAFETY; SARCOIDOSIS; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS; SYSTEMATIC REVIEW; TRANSBRONCHIAL ASPIRATION; VALIDITY;

EID: 84859795068     PISSN: 09546111     EISSN: 15323064     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.rmed.2012.02.014     Document Type: Article

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