CT-guided thoracic biopsy:Evaluating diagnostic yield and complications

Annals of the Academy of Medicine Singapore

Volumn 42, Issue 6, 2013, Pages 285-290

  Loh, Stanley Ek ^a   Wu, Donald Df ^a   Venkatesh, Sudhakar K ^a   Ong, Cheng Kang ^a   Liu, Eugene ^a   Seto, Kar Yin ^b   Gopinathan, Anil ^a   Tan, Lenny Ka ^a  

^a NATIONAL UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Singapore)

^b ALEXANDRA HOSPITAL   (Singapore)

Author keywords

Accuracy; Complications; Diagnostic yield; Haemoptysis; Pneumothorax

Indexed keywords

ADENOCARCINOMA; ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BIOPSY; CHILD; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; DIAGNOSTIC TEST ACCURACY STUDY; DIAGNOSTIC VALUE; FEMALE; HEMATOTHORAX; HEMOPTYSIS; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; LUNG LESION; LUNG NON SMALL CELL CANCER; LYMPHOMA; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; METASTASIS; MYCOSIS; NEEDLE BIOPSY; NEOPLASM; PNEUMOTHORAX; PREDICTIVE VALUE; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SMALL CELL CARCINOMA; SQUAMOUS CELL CARCINOMA; THORACIC BIOPSY; TUBERCULOSIS;

EID: 84879669197     PISSN: 03044602     EISSN: 29724066     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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