Concept information
Preferred term
Bronchoalveolar Lavage
Type
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Definition
- 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.
Broader concept
Narrower concepts
Entry terms
- Bronchioalveolar Lavage
- Bronchopulmonary Lavage
- Lavage, Bronchopulmonary
- Lung Lavage
Allowable Qualifier(s)
- adverse effects (Qualifier)
- classification (Qualifier)
- economics (Qualifier)
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- history (Qualifier)
- instrumentation (Qualifier)
- methods (Qualifier)
- mortality (Qualifier)
- nursing (Qualifier)
- psychology (Qualifier)
- standards (Qualifier)
- statistics & numerical data (Qualifier)
- trends (Qualifier)
- veterinary (Qualifier)
In other languages
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French
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Lavage broncho-alvéolaire
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Lavage broncho-pulmonaire
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Lavage bronchopulmonaire
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Lavage des poumons
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Lavage pulmonaire
URI
http://data.loterre.fr/ark:/67375/JVR-VXND1DQF-H
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