 Bronchoalveolar Lavage
"Bronchoalveolar Lavage" is a descriptor in the National Library of Medicine's controlled vocabulary thesaurus,
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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.
| Descriptor ID |
D018893
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| MeSH Number(s) |
E05.927.100
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| Concept/Terms |
Bronchoalveolar Lavage- Bronchoalveolar Lavage
- Bronchoalveolar Lavages
- Lavage, Bronchoalveolar
- Lavages, Bronchoalveolar
- Bronchopulmonary Lavage
- Bronchopulmonary Lavages
- Lavages, Bronchopulmonary
- Lung Lavage
- Lavage, Lung
- Lavages, Lung
- Lung Lavages
- Bronchioalveolar Lavage
- Bronchioalveolar Lavages
- Lavage, Bronchioalveolar
- Lavages, Bronchioalveolar
- Lavage, Bronchopulmonary
Bronchial Lavage- Bronchial Lavage
- Bronchial Lavages
- Lavage, Bronchial
- Lavages, Bronchial
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This graph shows the total number of publications written about "Bronchoalveolar Lavage" by people in UAMS Profiles by year, and whether "Bronchoalveolar Lavage" was a major or minor topic of these publications.
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| Year | Major Topic | Minor Topic | Total |
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| 2020 | 0 | 2 | 2 | | 2015 | 1 | 0 | 1 | | 2013 | 0 | 1 | 1 | | 2012 | 1 | 0 | 1 | | 2011 | 0 | 1 | 1 | | 2003 | 0 | 1 | 1 | | 1999 | 1 | 0 | 1 | | 1998 | 1 | 1 | 2 |
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Below are the most recent publications written about "Bronchoalveolar Lavage" by people in Profiles over the past ten years.
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Alzghoul BN, Li P, Zaki S, Patel DC. Bronchoalveolar lavage flow cytometry for the diagnosis of pulmonary post-transplant lymphoproliferative disorder. QJM. 2020 Nov 01; 113(11):813-814.
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Patolia S, Tamae Kakazu M, Chami HA, Chua A, Diaz-Mendoza J, Duggal A, Jenkins AR, Knight SL, Raghu G, Wilson KC. Bronchoalveolar Lavage Lymphocytes in the Diagnosis of Hypersensitivity Pneumonitis among Patients with Interstitial Lung Disease. Ann Am Thorac Soc. 2020 11; 17(11):1455-1467.
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Chellapandian D, Lehrnbecher T, Phillips B, Fisher BT, Zaoutis TE, Steinbach WJ, Beyene J, Sung L. Bronchoalveolar lavage and lung biopsy in patients with cancer and hematopoietic stem-cell transplantation recipients: a systematic review and meta-analysis. J Clin Oncol. 2015 Feb 10; 33(5):501-9.
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