Assessment of flexible bronchoscopy in lung cancer: Audit of practice and diagnostic rate

A. H. Mansur, R. M. Cayton, S. P. Burge (Stoke-on-Trent, Birmingham, United Kingdom)

Source: Annual Congress 2002 - Lung cancer: epidemiology and clinical characteristics
Session: Lung cancer: epidemiology and clinical characteristics
Session type: Thematic Poster Session
Number: 573
Disease area: Thoracic oncology

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