Bronchoalveolar Lavage Results Are Independent of Season, Age, Gender and Collection Site

PLoS ONE

Volumn 7, Issue 8, 2012, Pages

  Olsen, Helga H ^a   Grunewald, Johan ^a   Tornling, Göran ^a   Sköld, C Magnus ^a   Eklund, Anders ^a  

^a KAROLINSKA UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Sweden)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGE; AGE DISTRIBUTION; AGED; ARTICLE; BASOPHIL; EOSINOPHIL; FEMALE; GENDER; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; LEUKOCYTE DIFFERENTIAL COUNT; LINGULA; LUNG ALVEOLUS MACROPHAGE; LUNG LAVAGE; LUNG LOBE; LUNG STRUCTURE; LYMPHOCYTE; MALE; MAST CELL; MIDDLE LOBE; NEUTROPHIL; NORMAL HUMAN; REFERENCE VALUE; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; SEASONAL VARIATION; SEX DIFFERENCE;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGE FACTORS; AGED; BRONCHOALVEOLAR LAVAGE FLUID; CELL COUNT; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; SEASONS; SEX FACTORS; SPECIMEN HANDLING; YOUNG ADULT;

LINGULA;

EID: 84865651844     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0043644     Document Type: Article

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