Bronchoalveolar lavage in interstitial lung diseases: Does the recovery rate affect the results?

Respiration

Volumn 74, Issue 5, 2007, Pages 553-557

  Schildge, J ^a,c   Nagel, C ^a   Grun, C ^b  

^a Abteilung Pneumologie   (Germany)

^b St Vincentius Kliniken Karlsruhe   (Germany)

^c Abteilung Pneumologie   (Germany)

Author keywords

Bronchoalveolar lavage; Bronchoscopy; Interstitial lung disease

Indexed keywords

LYMPHOCYTE SURFACE MARKER;

ADULT; ARTICLE; BRONCHIOLITIS; BRONCHOSCOPY; CONNECTIVE TISSUE DISEASE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIAGNOSTIC VALUE; FEMALE; FIBROSING ALVEOLITIS; FORCED EXPIRATORY VOLUME; HUMAN; INSPIRATORY CAPACITY; INTERSTITIAL LUNG DISEASE; LUNG LAVAGE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PNEUMONIA; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SARCOIDOSIS;

ADULT; ALVEOLITIS, EXTRINSIC ALLERGIC; BRONCHIOLITIS; BRONCHIOLITIS OBLITERANS ORGANIZING PNEUMONIA; BRONCHOALVEOLAR LAVAGE; BRONCHOSCOPY; FEMALE; HUMANS; LUNG DISEASES, INTERSTITIAL; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PULMONARY FIBROSIS; SARCOIDOSIS, PULMONARY; SPIROMETRY;

EID: 34547630109     PISSN: 00257931     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1159/000102890     Document Type: Article

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