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Comparative analysis of induced sputum and bronchoalveolar lavage fluid (BALF) profile in asbestos exposed workers

BACKGROUND: Biological monitoring of healthy workers exposed to hazardous dusts lack validated screening tools. Induced sputum (IS) cellular profile was compared with bronchoalveolar lavage fluid (BALF) profile in asbestos exposed workers in order to assess its usefulness in monitoring workers expos...

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Autores principales: Alexopoulos, Evangelos C, Bouros, Demosthenes, Dimadi, Maria, Serbescu, Aneta, Bakoyannis, Giorgos, Kokkinis, Fivos P
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2011
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3170282/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/21838922
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1745-6673-6-23