Clinical Radiology
Volume 61, Issue 8 , Pages 700-705 , August 2006

Image-guided pleural biopsy: diagnostic yield and complications

  • R.E. Benamore

      Affiliations

    • Corresponding Author InformationGuarantor and correspondent: R.E. Benamore, Department of Radiology and Department of Histopathology, Glenfield Hospital, University Hospitals of Leicester NHS Trust, Groby Road, Leicester LE3 9QP, UK. Tel.: +116 2871471/1 416 214 1079 (living in Canada for the year).
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  • K. Scott
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  • C.J. Richards
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  • J.J. Entwisle

Received 1 November 2005 ,Revised 28 April 2006 ,Accepted 9 May 2006.

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PII: S0009-9260(06)00137-1

doi: 10.1016/j.crad.2006.05.002

Clinical Radiology
Volume 61, Issue 8 , Pages 700-705 , August 2006

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