Echoic features of lymph nodes with sarcoidosis determined by endobronchial ultrasound

Internal Medicine

Volumn 52, Issue 13, 2013, Pages 1473-1478

  Imai, Naoyuki ^a   Imaizumi, Kazuyoshi ^b   Ando, Masahiko ^c   Shimokata, Tomoya ^a   Ogawa, Tomomi ^a   Ito, Satoru ^a   Hashimoto, Naozumi ^a   Sato, Mitsuo ^a   Kondo, Masashi ^a   Hasegawa, Yoshinori ^a  

^a NAGOYA UNIVERSITY GRADUATE SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

^b FUJITA HEALTH UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^c NAGOYA UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Japan)

Author keywords

EBUS TBNA; Lung cancer metastasis; Sarcoidosis; Ultrasound image

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BIOPSY; BRONCHOSCOPY; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; ENDOBRONCHIAL ULTRASONOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HISTOLOGY; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; LUNG CANCER; LUNG LAVAGE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MEDIASTINUM LYMPH NODE; PREDICTIVE VALUE; RECEIVER OPERATING CHARACTERISTIC; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; SARCOIDOSIS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; TRANSBRONCHIAL ASPIRATION;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; BRONCHOSCOPY; ENDOSONOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HUMANS; LUNG NEOPLASMS; LYMPH NODES; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SARCOIDOSIS;

EID: 84879634316     PISSN: 09182918     EISSN: 13497235     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2169/internalmedicine.52.9082     Document Type: Article

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