Factors affecting diagnostic yield in needle biopsy for brain lesions

British Journal of Neurosurgery

Volumn 27, Issue 2, 2013, Pages 207-211

  Tsermoulas, Georgios ^a   Mukerji, Nitin ^a   Borah, Amlan Jyoti ^a   Mitchell, Patrick ^a   Ross, Nicholas ^a  

^a ROYAL VICTORIA INFIRMARY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Biopsy; Cerebral tumour; Diagnostic yield; Stereotaxy

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGE DISTRIBUTION; AGED; ARTICLE; BLOOD SMEAR; BRAIN BIOPSY; BRAIN DAMAGE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEMOGRAPHY; DIAGNOSTIC VALUE; ENDOSCOPIC ULTRASOUND GUIDED FINE NEEDLE BIOPSY; FEMALE; FRAMELESS STEREOTACTIC PROCEDURE; FROZEN SECTION; GENDER; HISTOLOGY; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; LOGISTIC REGRESSION ANALYSIS; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; NEEDLE BIOPSY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; STEREOTACTIC BIOPSY; TOPOGRAPHY; TUMOR VOLUME;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; BIOPSY, NEEDLE; BRAIN; BRAIN NEOPLASMS; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SEX FACTORS; SPECIMEN HANDLING; STEREOTAXIC TECHNIQUES; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84875834606     PISSN: 02688697     EISSN: 1360046X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3109/02688697.2012.722239     Document Type: Article

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