BAL fluid cytology in the assessment of infectious lung disease

Hospital Medicine

Volumn 60, Issue 8, 1999, Pages 550-555

  Jacobs, Jan A ^a   De Brauwer, Els Igb ^b  

^a MAASTRICHT UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

^b Sittard Geleen Heerlen   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL INFECTION; CENTRIFUGATION; CROSS INFECTION; CYTOLOGY; HUMAN; LUNG DISEASE; LUNG LAVAGE; METHODOLOGY; MICROBIOLOGY; PATHOLOGY; PNEUMONIA; REVIEW; VENTILATOR;

BACTERIAL INFECTIONS; BRONCHOALVEOLAR LAVAGE FLUID; CENTRIFUGATION; CROSS INFECTION; HUMANS; LUNG DISEASES; PNEUMONIA; VENTILATORS, MECHANICAL;

EID: 0033169933     PISSN: 14623935     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.12968/hosp.1999.60.8.1172     Document Type: Article

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