Role of Clinically Indicated Transbronchial Lung Biopsies in the Management of Pediatric Post-Lung Transplant Patients

Annals of Thoracic Surgery

Volumn 86, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 198-203

  Greene, Christina L ^a   Reemtsen, Brian ^a   Polimenakos, Anastasios ^a   Horn, Monica ^a   Wells, Winfield ^a  

^a CHILDREN S HOSPITAL LOS ANGELES   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTIINFECTIVE AGENT;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ANTIMICROBIAL THERAPY; ARTICLE; BLEEDING; BRONCHIOLITIS OBLITERANS; CHILD; CLINICAL EFFECTIVENESS; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; INCIDENCE; INFANT; LUNG FUNCTION TEST; LUNG GRAFT REJECTION; LUNG INFECTION; LUNG TRANSPLANTATION; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MEDICAL RECORD REVIEW; MORTALITY; PATIENT SAFETY; PNEUMOTHORAX; POSTOPERATIVE CARE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; SPIROMETRY; SYMPTOM; THORAX RADIOGRAPHY; TRANSBRONCHIAL BIOPSY; TREATMENT PLANNING; ALLOTRANSPLANTATION; BRONCHOSCOPY; COHORT ANALYSIS; FOLLOW UP; GRAFT REJECTION; GRAFT SURVIVAL; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; METHODOLOGY; MONITORING; NEEDLE BIOPSY; PRESCHOOL CHILD; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; BIOPSY, NEEDLE; BRONCHOSCOPY; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; COHORT STUDIES; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; GRAFT REJECTION; GRAFT SURVIVAL; HUMANS; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; INFANT; LUNG TRANSPLANTATION; MALE; MONITORING, PHYSIOLOGIC; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; TRANSPLANTATION, HOMOLOGOUS;

EID: 47049110667     PISSN: 00034975     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.athoracsur.2008.03.075     Document Type: Article

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