Endobronchial ultrasonography for the quantitative assessment of bronchial mural structures in lung transplant recipients

Chest

Volumn 129, Issue 2, 2006, Pages 349-355

  Irani, Sarosh ^a   Hess, Thomas ^b   Hofer, Markus ^a   Gaspert, Ariana ^a   Bachmann, Lucas M ^c   Russi, Erich W ^a   Boehler, Annette ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^b CANTONAL HOSPITAL WINTERTHUR   (Switzerland)

^c UNIVERSITY OF ZURICH   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Acute graft rejection; Endobronchial ultrasonography; Lung transplant recipients; Quantitative assessment

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BRONCHOSCOPY; BRONCHUS; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CORRELATION COEFFICIENT; ECHOGRAPHY; ENDOBRONCHIAL ECHOGRAPHY; FEMALE; GRAFT INFECTION; GRAFT REJECTION; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; IMAGE ANALYSIS; INFLAMMATION; LUNG STRUCTURE; LUNG TRANSPLANTATION; MALE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUANTITATIVE DIAGNOSIS; REPRODUCIBILITY;

EID: 33344474418     PISSN: 00123692     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1378/chest.129.2.349     Document Type: Article

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