Bronchoalveolar Lavage

"Bronchoalveolar Lavage" is a descriptor in the National Library of Medicine's controlled vocabulary thesaurus, MeSH (Medical Subject Headings). Descriptors are arranged in a hierarchical structure, which enables searching at various levels of specificity.

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Washing out of the lungs with saline or mucolytic agents for diagnostic or therapeutic purposes. It is very useful in the diagnosis of diffuse pulmonary infiltrates in immunosuppressed patients.


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This graph shows the total number of publications written about "Bronchoalveolar Lavage" by people in this website by year, and whether "Bronchoalveolar Lavage" was a major or minor topic of these publications.
Bar chart showing 35 publications over 22 distinct years, with a maximum of 4 publications in 2008
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