Mediastinoscopy: a diagnostic procedure in hilar and paratracheal lymphadenopathy
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Mediastinoscopy: a diagnostic procedure in hilar and paratracheal lymphadenopathy.
Mediastinoscopy, in the skilled hands of a thoracic surgeon, is a safe, cosmetically accepted procedure with negligible complications, less than that reported in many series of scalene node biopsies. It has the advantage of yielding a much higher rate of diagnostic tissue, in all instances over 90%O. In the cases of tuberculosis it enabled an organism to be isolated and sensitivities obtained. ...
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عنوان ژورنال: Postgraduate Medical Journal
سال: 1971
ISSN: 0032-5473
DOI: 10.1136/pgmj.47.553.698