Bronchoalveolar lavage total cell count in interstitial lung diseases - Does it matter?

Inflammation

Volumn 35, Issue 3, 2012, Pages 803-809

  Domagała Kulawik, Joanna ^a   Skirecki, Tomasz ^a   Maskey Warzechowska, Marta ^a   Grubek Jaworska, Hanna ^a   Chazan, Ryszarda ^a  

^a MEDICAL UNIVERSITY OF WARSAW   (Poland)

Author keywords

BAL; Interstitial lung diseases; Total cell count

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ALLERGIC PNEUMONITIS; ARTICLE; BRONCHIOLITIS OBLITERANS ORGANIZING PNEUMONIA; CELL COUNT; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; FEMALE; FIBROSING ALVEOLITIS; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; HUMAN TISSUE; INFLAMMATORY CELL; INTERSTITIAL LUNG DISEASE; LOEFFLER PNEUMONIA; LOGISTIC REGRESSION ANALYSIS; LUNG LAVAGE; LUNG SARCOIDOSIS; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; REFERENCE VALUE; SMOKING; TOTAL CELL COUNT;

ADULT; ALVEOLITIS, EXTRINSIC ALLERGIC; BRONCHOALVEOLAR LAVAGE; BRONCHOALVEOLAR LAVAGE FLUID; CELL COUNT; CRYPTOGENIC ORGANIZING PNEUMONIA; FEMALE; HUMANS; IDIOPATHIC PULMONARY FIBROSIS; LUNG DISEASES, INTERSTITIAL; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PULMONARY EOSINOPHILIA; SARCOIDOSIS;

EID: 84863803556     PISSN: 03603997     EISSN: 15732576     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10753-011-9378-5     Document Type: Article

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