The role of endobronchial ultrasound in lung cancer diagnosis and staging: A comprehensive review

Clinical Lung Cancer

Volumn 13, Issue 6, 2012, Pages 408-415

  Kokkonouzis, Ioannis ^a,b   Strimpakos, Alexios S ^a   Lampaditis, Ioannis ^b   Tsimpoukis, Sotirios ^a   Syrigos, Kostas N ^a  

^a SOTIRIA GENERAL HOSPITAL   (Greece)

^b IASO GENERAL HOSPITAL   (Greece)

Author keywords

Bronchoscopy; Diagnostic techniques; Endoscopy; Lung carcinoma; Mediastinal staging

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHM; ASPIRATION CYTOLOGY; CANCER PATIENT; CANCER PROGNOSIS; CANCER STAGING; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; DIAGNOSTIC TEST ACCURACY STUDY; DIAGNOSTIC VALUE; ELECTROMAGNETIC RADIATION; ENDOBRONCHIAL ULTRASONOGRAPHY; FALSE NEGATIVE RESULT; FALSE POSITIVE RESULT; FEASIBILITY STUDY; HUMAN; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; LUNG BIOPSY; LUNG CANCER; LUNG NODULE; LUNG NON SMALL CELL CANCER; LUNG PARENCHYMA; MEDIASTINOSCOPY; MEDIASTINUM; MOLECULAR DIAGNOSIS; OUTPATIENT; POSITRON EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; REVIEW; SAFETY; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; TRACHEOBRONCHIAL TREE; TRANSBRONCHIAL ASPIRATION;

BIOPSY, NEEDLE; BRONCHOSCOPES; BRONCHOSCOPY; ENDOSONOGRAPHY; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; HUMANS; LUNG NEOPLASMS; NEOPLASM STAGING;

EID: 84867499750     PISSN: 15257304     EISSN: 19380690     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.cllc.2012.05.001     Document Type: Review

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