Searching strategies of the Medline database (results from 14 May 2014)
| Specified item | Search | Query | Result |
|---|---|---|---|
| Target condition set | #1 | “Lung Neoplasms”[Mesh] | 170 510 |
| #2 | (“lung”[tw] OR pulmonary[tw]) | 924 000 | |
| #3 | (neoplasm*[tw] OR cancer*[tw] OR tumor*[tw] OR carcinoma*[tw] OR neoplasia*[tw] OR malignan*[tw]) | 2 207 899 | |
| #4 | “neoplasm staging”[MeSH Terms] | 119 312 | |
| #5 | Stage[tw] OR stages[tw] OR staging[tw] | 806 735 | |
| Patient description set | #6 | (“humans”[MeSH] OR human*[tw]) NOT (“animals”[MeSH] OR animal*[tw]) | 11 775 100 |
| Index tests set | #7 | (“endosonography”[MeSH] OR “ultrasonography, interventional” [MeSH]) AND “biopsy”[MeSH] | 4989 |
| #8 | “Endoscopic Ultrasound-Guided Fine Needle Aspiration”[MeSH] | 385 | |
| #9 | biops*[tw] OR aspirat*[tw] OR punct*[tw] | 498 201 | |
| #10 | endobronch*[tw] OR transbronch*[tw] OR (intervention*[tw] AND bronch*[tw]) | 12 851 | |
| #11 | endosonograph*[tw] | 9756 | |
| #12 | Endoscop*[tw] | 169 758 | |
| #13 | Ultrasonography[MeSH] OR ultrasound*[tw] OR *sonogra*[tw] OR *ultrason*[tw] OR echograph*[tw] OR Echo[tw] | 490 594 | |
| #14 | #1 OR (#2 AND #3) | 224 785 | |
| #15 | (#3 AND #5) OR #4 | 119 312 | |
| #16 | #14 AND #15 | 16 683 | |
| #17 | #6 AND #16 | 16 406 | |
| #18 | #9 AND #10 AND #11 | 405 | |
| #19 | #9 AND #10 AND #12 AND #13 | 291 | |
| #20 | #7 OR #8 OR #18 OR #19 | 5133 | |
| #21 | #17 AND #20 | 364 |