Percutaneous lung biopsies – a district hospital experience

A. Prasad, P. Cadman, D. Taylor, C. G. Wathen (High Wycombe, United Kingdom)

Source: Annual Congress 2005 - Diagnostic and therapeutic issues in bronchoscopy and thoracoscopy
Session: Diagnostic and therapeutic issues in bronchoscopy and thoracoscopy
Session type: Thematic Poster Session
Number: 2098
Disease area: Thoracic oncology

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A. Prasad, P. Cadman, D. Taylor, C. G. Wathen (High Wycombe, United Kingdom). Percutaneous lung biopsies – a district hospital experience. Eur Respir J 2005; 26: Suppl. 49, 2098

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