Endobronchial ultrasound-guided transbronchial needle aspiration and its role in non-small cell lung cancer: Diagnostic impact and limitations

Thoracic Cancer

Volumn 1, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 70-76

  Dango, Sebastian ^a   Guenter, Jutta ^a   Passlick, Bernward ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF FREIBURG   (Germany)

Author keywords

EBUS TBNA; Lymph node metastasis; NSCLC; Prognosis

Indexed keywords

CANCER ADJUVANT THERAPY; CANCER PATIENT; CANCER STAGING; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CYTOLOGY; ENDOBRONCHIAL ULTRASONOGRAPHY; HUMAN; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; LUNG NON SMALL CELL CANCER; LYMPH NODE METASTASIS; LYMPHADENOPATHY; MEDIASTINOSCOPY; MEDIASTINUM LYMPH NODE; POSITRON EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; PREDICTIVE VALUE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; TRANSBRONCHIAL ASPIRATION;

EID: 84861353975     PISSN: 17597706     EISSN: 17597714     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1759-7714.2010.00014.x     Document Type: Review

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