Diagnostic yield of bronchoscopy with bronchoalveolar lavage in febrile patients with hematologic malignancies and pulmonary infiltrates

Annals of Hematology

Volumn 87, Issue 4, 2008, Pages 291-297

  Hummel, Margit ^a   Rudert, Silke ^a   Hof, Herbert ^a   Hehlmann, Rüdiger ^a   Buchheidt, Dieter ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HEIDELBERG   (Germany)

Author keywords

Bronchoalveolar lavage; Bronchoscopy; Hematologic malignancies; Lung infiltrates; Neutropenia

Indexed keywords

ANTIBIOTIC AGENT; ANTIFUNGAL AGENT; ANTIVIRUS AGENT;

ACUTE LEUKEMIA; ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; ASPERGILLUS; BLEEDING DISORDER; CANDIDA; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIAGNOSTIC VALUE; FEMALE; FIBEROPTIC BRONCHOSCOPY; GRAM NEGATIVE BACTERIUM; GRAM POSITIVE BACTERIUM; HEART ARRHYTHMIA; HEMATOLOGIC MALIGNANCY; HIGH RISK PATIENT; HUMAN; LUNG INFILTRATE; LUNG LAVAGE; LYMPHOMA; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MICROBIAL COLONIZATION; MICROBIAL CONTAMINATION; MICROBIOLOGICAL EXAMINATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; SPECIES IDENTIFICATION; VIRUS PATHOGENESIS;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; BACTERIA; BRONCHOALVEOLAR LAVAGE FLUID; BRONCHOSCOPY; FEMALE; FEVER; FIBER OPTICS; FUNGI; HEMATOLOGIC NEOPLASMS; HUMANS; LUNG; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; RADIOGRAPHY, THORACIC; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES;

EID: 41249085123     PISSN: 09395555     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00277-007-0391-6     Document Type: Article

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