Bronchioloalveolar lavage in the diagnosis of CMV pneumonitis in lung transplant recipients: An immunocytochemical study

Diagnostic Cytopathology

Volumn 16, Issue 4, 1997, Pages 350-352

  Solans, Enric P ^a,d   Yong, Sherri ^a,b   Husain, Aliya N ^a   Eichorst, Mariann ^b   Gattuso, Paolo ^c  

^a LOYOLA UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^b Edward Hines Jr Hospital   (United States)

^c RUSH UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^d Ingalls Memorial Hospital   (United States)

Author keywords

bronchoalveolar lavage; cytomegalovirus; lung transplant

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CYTOMEGALOVIRUS INFECTION; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; IMMUNOCYTOCHEMISTRY; LUNG INFECTION; LUNG LAVAGE; LUNG TRANSPLANTATION; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; VIRUS DIAGNOSIS; VIRUS PNEUMONIA;

BRONCHOALVEOLAR LAVAGE FLUID; CYTOMEGALOVIRUS INFECTIONS; HUMANS; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; LUNG TRANSPLANTATION; PNEUMONIA, VIRAL; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY;

EID: 0031003345     PISSN: 87551039     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/(SICI)1097-0339(199704)16:4<350::AID-DC9>3.0.CO;2-H     Document Type: Article

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