Bronchoalveolar lavage and other methods to define the human respiratory tract milieu in health and disease

Lung

Volumn 189, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 87-99

  Reynolds, Herbert Y ^a  

^a NONE

Author keywords

Bronchoalveolar lavage; Connective tissue diseases; Hypersensitivity pneumonitis; Idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis; Interstitial lung disease; Sarcoidosis; Scleroderma

Indexed keywords

FOSPROPOFOL; INTERLEUKIN 6; INTERLEUKIN 8;

ALLOGRAFT; ASTHMA; BASOPHIL; CHRONIC OBSTRUCTIVE LUNG DISEASE; CLINICAL ASSESSMENT; CONDENSATE; DENDRITIC CELL; DERMATOMYOSITIS; EOSINOPHIL; FIBEROPTIC BRONCHOSCOPY; HUMAN; INNATE IMMUNITY; INTERSTITIAL LUNG DISEASE; INTERSTITIAL PNEUMONIA; LEUKOCYTE DIFFERENTIAL COUNT; LUNG CANCER; LUNG FIBROSIS; LUNG INFECTION; LUNG LAVAGE; LUNG TRANSPLANTATION; LUPUS ERYTHEMATOSUS; LYMPHOCYTE; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; POLYMYOSITIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; RHEUMATOID ARTHRITIS; SCLERODERMA; SJOEGREN SYNDROME; TRANSBRONCHIAL BIOPSY;

BIOPSY; BREATH TESTS; BRONCHOALVEOLAR LAVAGE; BRONCHOSCOPY; HUMANS; RESPIRATORY SYSTEM; RESPIRATORY TRACT DISEASES;

EID: 79953715138     PISSN: 03412040     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00408-011-9284-5     Document Type: Review

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