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Assessing airway inflammation in clinical practice – experience with spontaneous sputum analysis
BACKGROUND: The assessment of airway inflammation for the diagnosis of asthma or COPD is still uncommon in pneumology-specialized general practices. In this respect, the measurement of exhaled nitric oxide (NO), as a fast and simple methodology, is increasingly used. The indirect assessment of airwa...
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Lenguaje: | English |
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BioMed Central
2008
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2277372/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/18307780 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1471-2466-8-5 |