Evaluation of a learning system for endobronchial ultrasound-guided transbronchial needle aspiration

Respiratory Investigation

Volumn 50, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 46-53

  Sakairi, Yuichi ^a   Saegusa, Fumie ^b   Yoshida, Shigetoshi ^a   Takiguchi, Yuichi ^a   Tatsumi, Koichiro ^a   Yoshino, Ichiro ^a  

^a CHIBA UNIVERSITY GRADUATE SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

^b CHIBA UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Japan)

Author keywords

Education; Endobronchial ultrasound; Learning curve; Lung cancer; Staging

Indexed keywords

BRONCHUS; CANCER STAGING; CYTOLOGY; ECHOGRAPHY; EDUCATION; FINE NEEDLE ASPIRATION BIOPSY; HISTOLOGY; HUMAN; IMAGE GUIDED BIOPSY; LUNG; LUNG TUMOR; PATHOLOGY; PROCEDURES; TEACHING;

BIOPSY, FINE-NEEDLE; BRONCHI; CYTOLOGICAL TECHNIQUES; HISTOLOGICAL TECHNIQUES; HUMANS; IMAGE-GUIDED BIOPSY; LUNG; LUNG NEOPLASMS; NEOPLASM STAGING; PATHOLOGY, CLINICAL; TEACHING; ULTRASONOGRAPHY;

EID: 84868298457     PISSN: 22125345     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.resinv.2012.04.002     Document Type: Article

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