Advantages of thoracic ultrasound-guided fine-needle aspiration biopsy in lung cancer

Chest

Volumn 146, Issue 5, 2014, Pages e178-e179

  Sperandeo, Marco ^a   Dimitri, Lucia ^a   Pirri, Clara ^b   Trovato, Francesca M ^b   Catalano, Daniela ^b   Trovato, Guglielmo M ^b  

^a CASA SOLLIEVO DELLA SOFFERENZA HOSPITAL   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CATANIA   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; ENDOSCOPIC ULTRASOUND GUIDED FINE NEEDLE BIOPSY; HISTOLOGY; HUMAN; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; LETTER; LUNG CANCER; LUNG PARENCHYMA; PLEURA BIOPSY; PLEURA EFFUSION; PLEURA MESOTHELIOMA; PLEURA PLAQUE; PNEUMOTHORAX; THORACOSCOPY; THORAX PAIN; ENDOSCOPIC ECHOGRAPHY; FEMALE; IMAGE GUIDED BIOPSY; MALE; NEEDLE BIOPSY; PATHOLOGY; PLEURA; PLEURAL DISEASES; PROCEDURES;

BIOPSY, NEEDLE; FEMALE; HUMANS; IMAGE-GUIDED BIOPSY; MALE; PLEURA; PLEURAL DISEASES; THORACOSCOPY; ULTRASONOGRAPHY, INTERVENTIONAL;

EID: 84909986961     PISSN: 00123692     EISSN: 19313543     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1378/chest.14-1557     Document Type: Letter

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