Assessing airway inflammation in clinical practice - Experience with spontaneous sputum analysis

BMC Pulmonary Medicine

Volumn 8, Issue , 2008, Pages

  Holz, Olaf ^a   Seiler, Tanja ^a   Karmeier, Andreas ^b   Fraedrich, Jan ^c   Leiner, Helmut ^d   Magnussen, Helgo ^a   Jörres, Rudolf A ^a,e   Welker, Lutz ^a  

^a KRANKENHAUS GROSSHANSDORF   (Germany)

^b Outpatient Clinic for Internal Medicine and Pneumology   (Germany)

^c Outpatient Clinic for Internal Medicine and Pneumology   (Germany)

^d Outpatient Clinic for Internal Medicine and Pneumology   (Germany)

^e LUDWIG MAXIMILIANS UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AIRWAY; ARTICLE; ASTHMA; BRONCHUS HYPERREACTIVITY; CHRONIC OBSTRUCTIVE LUNG DISEASE; CLINICAL PRACTICE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CYTOLOGY; DIAGNOSTIC VALUE; EOSINOPHILIA; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; NEUTROPHILIA; OUTPATIENT; PREVALENCE; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; RATING SCALE; RESPIRATORY TRACT INFLAMMATION; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; SPUTUM ANALYSIS; LEUKOCYTE COUNT; NEUTROPHIL; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PREDICTION AND FORECASTING; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; SPUTUM;

ASTHMA; BRONCHIAL HYPERREACTIVITY; EOSINOPHILIA; HUMANS; LEUKOCYTE COUNT; NEUTROPHILS; PREDICTIVE VALUE OF TESTS; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; PULMONARY DISEASE, CHRONIC OBSTRUCTIVE; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SPUTUM;

EID: 41749118307     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14712466     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1471-2466-8-5     Document Type: Article

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