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peripheral lesion

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peripheral lesion
Etymology: Gk, perphereia + L, laesio, hurting
an injury to any tissues distal to the main organ systems. A peripheral nerve lesion is usually traumatic and interrupts the flow of impulses between the site of the lesion and the nerve root or plexus.


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Bronchial brushing is an established tool for diagnosis of various pulmonary neoplastic and non neoplastic diseases, and is particularly sensitive in diagnosing peripheral lesions.
Other peripheral lesions include neoplastic aneurysms, rare sequelae of embolized tumor fragments, and traumatic aneurysms.
[FIGURE 3 OMITTED] A comparison of Figure 3 with practitioners' selections for first diagnostic test shown in Figures 1 and 2 reveals that all respondents estimated that thoracoscopy was the most sensitive diagnostic test for peripheral lesions, with TFNAB ranked second, but no physicians selected thoracoscopy as their first diagnostic test for any of the peripheral lesion simulations.
 
 
 
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