Risks of transthoracic needle biopsy: How high?

Clinical Pulmonary Medicine

Volumn 20, Issue 1, 2013, Pages 29-35

  Wiener, Renda Soylemez ^a,c   Wiener, Daniel C ^b   Gould, Michael K ^d  

^a BOSTON UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b TUFTS MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^c VETERANS AFFAIRS MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^d Kaiser Permanente Southern California ^*  (United States)

Author keywords

complications; needle biopsy; pulmonary nodule

Indexed keywords

ADVERSE OUTCOME; AGE; AIR EMBOLISM; CHRONIC OBSTRUCTIVE LUNG DISEASE; HUMAN; LUNG HEMORRHAGE; LUNG NODULE; LUNG TUMOR; PNEUMOTHORAX; REVIEW; RISK FACTOR; RISK REDUCTION; TRANSTHORACIC BIOPSY; TUMOR SEEDING;

EID: 84872200590     PISSN: 10680640     EISSN: 15365956     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/CPM.0b013e31827a30c1     Document Type: Review

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