Bronchoalveolar lavage in children with cystic fibrosis: How many lobes should be sampled?

Archives of Disease in Childhood

Volumn 96, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 215-217

  Gilchrist, Francis J ^a   Salamat, S ^a   Clayton, S ^a   Peach, J ^a   Alexander, J ^a   Lenney, W ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL OF NORTH STAFFORDSHIRE   (United Kingdom)

^b KEELE UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; ASPERGILLUS FUMIGATUS; BACTERIUM CULTURE; BACTERIUM ISOLATION; BRONCHOSCOPY; CHILD; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COUGHING; HAEMOPHILUS INFLUENZAE; HUMAN; LUNG FIBROSIS; LUNG LAVAGE; LUNG LOBE; MEDICAL RECORD REVIEW; MORAXELLA CATARRHALIS; NONHUMAN; PRESCHOOL CHILD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SCHOOL CHILD; SPHINGOMONAS PAUCIMOBILIS; STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS; STENOTROPHOMONAS MALTOPHILIA;

BRONCHOALVEOLAR LAVAGE; BRONCHOALVEOLAR LAVAGE FLUID; BRONCHOSCOPY; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; CYSTIC FIBROSIS; FALSE NEGATIVE REACTIONS; HUMANS; OPPORTUNISTIC INFECTIONS; RESPIRATORY TRACT INFECTIONS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES;

EID: 79951677539     PISSN: 00039888     EISSN: 14682044     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1136/adc.2009.177618     Document Type: Article

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