Ultrasound-guided medical thoracoscopy in the absence of pleural effusion

Chest

Volumn 147, Issue 4, 2015, Pages 1008-1012

  Marchetti, Giampietro ^a   Valsecchi, Alberto ^b   Indellicati, Davide ^c   Arondi, Sabrina ^b   Trigiani, Marco ^a   Pinelli, Valentina ^d  

^a SPEDALI CIVILI   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BRESCIA   (Italy)

^c UNIVERSITY OF TURIN   (Italy)

^d Ospedale San Bartolomeo   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGE DISTRIBUTION; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; ECHOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; LUNG NODULE; MALE; PLEURA BIOPSY; PLEURA CAVITY; PLEURA EFFUSION; PLEURAL NODULE; PNEUMOTHORAX; PREOPERATIVE PERIOD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; SEX RATIO; THORACOSCOPY; COMPUTER ASSISTED SURGERY; DIFFERENTIAL DIAGNOSIS; FOLLOW UP; MIDDLE AGED; PLEURAL DISEASES; PROCEDURES; REPRODUCIBILITY; VIDEO ASSISTED THORACOSCOPIC SURGERY;

DIAGNOSIS, DIFFERENTIAL; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PLEURAL DISEASES; PLEURAL EFFUSION; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SURGERY, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; THORACIC SURGERY, VIDEO-ASSISTED;

EID: 84927153459     PISSN: 00123692     EISSN: 19313543     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1378/chest.14-0637     Document Type: Article

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