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Handling and Analysis of Bronchoalveolar Lavage and Lung Biopsy Specimens With Approach to Patterns of Lung Injury
The total number of leukocytes recovered by lavage ... Red blood cells and epithelial cells should be enumerated but are not included in the total white cell count. Differential cell counts ...
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Baseline BAL neutrophilia predicts early mortality in idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis.
METHODS: We evaluated the association of BAL fluid cell count differential and mortality among 156 persons with surgical lung biopsy-proven IPF who underwent bronchoscopy with BAL and cell count ...
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Real-time quantitative RT–PCR after laser-assisted cell picking
which contain transcriptionally inducible genes and may—apart from cell picking—be alternatively acquired from the same lung by bronchoalveolar lavage. Tumor necrosis factor-α (TNF-α ...