Comparison of alveolar septal inflammation to bronchoalveolar lavage in interstitial lung diseases

Respiration

Volumn 63, Issue 2, 1996, Pages 94-99

  Nagata, Nobuhiko ^a   Takayama, Koichi ^b   Nikaido, Yoshihiko ^a   Yokosaki, Yasuyuki ^a   Kido, Masamitsu ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OCCUPATIONAL AND ENVIRONMENTAL HEALTH   (Japan)

^b KYUSHU UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Bronchoalveolar lavage; Hypersensitivity pneumonitis; Idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis; Interstitial lung disease; Pneumoconiosis; Sarcoidosis; Transbronchial lung biopsy

Indexed keywords

ALLERGIC PNEUMONITIS; ARTICLE; CELL DENSITY; CORRELATION FUNCTION; DISEASE SEVERITY; FIBROSING ALVEOLITIS; FLUOROSCOPY; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; HUMAN TISSUE; INTERSTITIAL LUNG DISEASE; INTERSTITIAL PNEUMONIA; LUNG ALVEOLUS WALL; LUNG LAVAGE; LYMPHOCYTE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MONONUCLEAR CELL; MORPHOMETRICS; PNEUMOCONIOSIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SARCOIDOSIS; TRANSBRONCHIAL BIOPSY;

ALVEOLITIS, EXTRINSIC ALLERGIC; BIOPSY; BRONCHOALVEOLAR LAVAGE FLUID; HUMANS; INFLAMMATION; LUNG DISEASES, INTERSTITIAL; LYMPHOCYTES; PNEUMOCONIOSIS; PULMONARY ALVEOLI;

EID: 0029968079     PISSN: 00257931     EISSN: 14230356     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1159/000196525     Document Type: Article

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