Transbronchial cryo-biopsy in lung transplantation patients: First report

Respirology

Volumn 18, Issue 4, 2013, Pages 669-673

  Fruchter, Oren ^a,b   Fridel, Ludmila ^a   Rosengarten, Dror ^a   Raviv, Yael ^a   Rosanov, Viktoria ^a   Kramer, Mordechai R ^a,b  

^a RABIN MEDICAL CENTER   (Israel)

^b TEL AVIV UNIVERSITY   (Israel)

Author keywords

biopsy; bronchoscopy; lung transplantation; rejection

Indexed keywords

ACUTE GRAFT REJECTION; ADULT; ARTICLE; BLEEDING; BRONCHOSCOPY; CHRONIC OBSTRUCTIVE LUNG DISEASE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CRYOPROBE; CRYOSURGERY; CYSTIC FIBROSIS; DIAGNOSTIC VALUE; FLUOROSCOPY; HISTOLOGY; HUMAN; INTERSTITIAL LUNG DISEASE; LUNG PARENCHYMA; LUNG TRANSPLANTATION; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; PATIENT SAFETY; PNEUMONIA; PNEUMOTHORAX; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; THORAX RADIOGRAPHY; TRANSBRONCHIAL BIOPSY;

ADULT; BIOPSY; BRONCHOSCOPY; CRYOTHERAPY; GRAFT REJECTION; HUMANS; LUNG; LUNG DISEASES; LUNG TRANSPLANTATION; MIDDLE AGED; PNEUMONIA; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES;

EID: 84876915726     PISSN: 13237799     EISSN: 14401843     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/resp.12037     Document Type: Article

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