Physician-led thoracic ultrasound-guided biopsy; a district general hospital perspective.
M J CafferkeyG A MartinPublished in: The journal of the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh (2024)
This single centre retrospective study shows that physician-led TUS-guided biopsy provides a safe and timely method of obtaining a tissue diagnosis in thoracic malignancy. It offers an alternative to computer tomography (CT)-guided or thoracoscopic biopsies and should be considered in selected patients where local procedural expertise exists.
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