CT-guided Hook Wire Localization of Subpleural Lung Lesions for Video-assisted Thoracoscopic Surgery (VATS)

Histologic diagnosis of suspicious small subpleural lung lesions is difficult and often impossible using existing image-guided needle biopsy techniques including video-assisted thoracoscopic wedge resection. Preoperative lung lesion localization provides a more obvious target to facilitate intraoper...

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Main Authors: Yu-Ruei Chen, Kee-Min Yeow, Jui-Ying Lee, I-Hao Su, Sung-Yu Chu, Chih-Hui Lee, Yun-Chung Cheung, Hui-Ping Liu
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Elsevier 2007-11-01
Series:Journal of the Formosan Medical Association
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Online Access:http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0929664608600613