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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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Autores principales: Holz, Olaf, Seiler, Tanja, Karmeier, Andreas, Fraedrich, Jan, Leiner, Helmut, Magnussen, Helgo, Jörres, Rudolf A, Welker, Lutz
Formato: Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: 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