Clinical usefulness of bronchoalveolar lavage cellular analysis and lymphocyte subsets in diffuse interstitial lung diseases

Annals of Laboratory Medicine

Volumn 35, Issue 2, 2015, Pages 220-225

  Lee, Wookeun ^a   Chung, Wha Soon ^a   Hong, Ki Sook ^a   Huh, Jungwon ^a  

^a Ewha Womans University School of Medicine   (South Korea)

Author keywords

Bronchoalveolar lavage; Interstitial lung diseases; Lymphocyte subsets; Pulmonary eosinophilia; Sarcoidosis

Indexed keywords

AGED; AREA UNDER THE CURVE; BRONCHOALVEOLAR LAVAGE FLUID; CD4 CD8 RATIO; CYTOLOGY; DEMOGRAPHY; DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING; EOSINOPHIL; FEMALE; HUMAN; IMMUNOPHENOTYPING; LUNG DISEASES, INTERSTITIAL; LYMPHOCYTE SUBPOPULATION; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NEUTROPHIL; RECEIVER OPERATING CHARACTERISTIC; SARCOIDOSIS; T LYMPHOCYTE; VERY ELDERLY; X-RAY COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; AREA UNDER CURVE; BRONCHOALVEOLAR LAVAGE FLUID; CD4-CD8 RATIO; DEMOGRAPHY; EOSINOPHILS; FEMALE; HUMANS; IMMUNOPHENOTYPING; LUNG DISEASES, INTERSTITIAL; LYMPHOCYTE SUBSETS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NEUTROPHILS; ROC CURVE; SARCOIDOSIS; T-LYMPHOCYTES; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

EID: 84923650048     PISSN: 22343806     EISSN: 22343814     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3343/alm.2015.35.2.220     Document Type: Article

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