Best Practices in Endoscopic Ultrasound-Guided Fine-Needle Aspiration

Clinical Gastroenterology and Hepatology

Volumn 10, Issue 7, 2012, Pages 697-703

  Varadarajulu, Shyam ^a   Fockens, Paul ^b   Hawes, Robert H ^c  

^a University of Alabama at Birmingham   (United States)

^b ACADEMIC MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CENTRAL FLORIDA   (United States)

Author keywords

Cytopathology; Histology; Suction; Tissue collection procedure

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; ASPIRATION BIOPSY; CLINICAL PRACTICE; CYTOLOGY; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; DUODENUM BIOPSY; ENDOSCOPIC ECHOGRAPHY; ENDOSCOPIC ULTRASOUND GUIDED FINE NEEDLE ASPIRATION; ESOPHAGUS BIOPSY; EXPERIENCE; HUMAN; STOMACH BIOPSY; SUCTION; SURGEON;

BIOPSY, FINE-NEEDLE; ENDOSONOGRAPHY; HUMANS; PRACTICE GUIDELINES AS TOPIC;

EID: 84862670353     PISSN: 15423565     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.cgh.2012.03.017     Document Type: Article

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