Prognostic significance of bronchoalveolar lavage cellular analysis in scleroderma lung disease

American Journal of Respiratory and Critical Care Medicine

Volumn 177, Issue 11, 2008, Pages 1292-1293

  Kinder, Brent W ^a   King Jr , Talmadge E ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CINCINNATI COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CALCULATION; CONFIDENCE INTERVAL; CYTOLOGY; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING; DIAGNOSTIC VALUE; DISEASE COURSE; DISEASE MARKER; EOSINOPHILIA; FOLLOW UP; HIGH RESOLUTION COMPUTER TOMOGRAPHY; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; IMAGE ANALYSIS; INTERSTITIAL LUNG DISEASE; LETTER; LUNG FUNCTION; LUNG LAVAGE; NEUTROPHILIA; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PREDICTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROGNOSIS; RISK FACTOR; SCLERODERMA; MORTALITY; NOTE; PATHOLOGY; PREDICTION AND FORECASTING; SYSTEMIC SCLEROSIS;

BRONCHOALVEOLAR LAVAGE FLUID; HUMANS; LUNG DISEASES, INTERSTITIAL; PREDICTIVE VALUE OF TESTS; SCLERODERMA, SYSTEMIC;

EID: 44449107083     PISSN: 1073449X     EISSN: 15354970     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1164/ajrccm.177.11.1292     Document Type: Letter

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