Point: Should endobronchial ultrasound guide every transbronchial needle aspiration of lymph nodes? Yes

Chest

Volumn 144, Issue 3, 2013, Pages 732-734

  Wahidi, Momen M ^a   Yasufuku, Kazuhiro ^b  

^a DUKE UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BALLOON; BIOPSY TECHNIQUE; BRONCHOSCOPY; CLINICAL EFFECTIVENESS; COST BENEFIT ANALYSIS; COST CONTROL; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; DIAGNOSTIC VALUE; ENDOBRONCHIAL ULTRASONOGRAPHY; ENDOSCOPIC ULTRASOUND GUIDED FINE NEEDLE BIOPSY; EVIDENCE BASED MEDICINE; HEALTH CARE COST; HUMAN; LUNG CANCER; LUNG HILUS; LUNG SARCOIDOSIS; LYMPH NODE BIOPSY; MEDIASTINOSCOPY; MEDIASTINUM DISEASE; MEDIASTINUM LYMPH NODE; NEEDLE; PATIENT SAFETY; PLEURA BIOPSY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SENSITIVITY AND SENSIBILITY; TRANSBRONCHIAL ASPIRATION;

EID: 84884317133     PISSN: 00123692     EISSN: 19313543     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1378/chest.13-0702     Document Type: Editorial

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