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Additional role of second washing specimen obtained during single bronchoscopy session in diagnosis of pulmonary tuberculosis

BACKGROUND: Flexible bronchoscopy with bronchial washing is a useful procedure for diagnosis of pulmonary tuberculosis (TB), when a patient cannot produce sputum spontaneously or when sputum smears are negative. However, the benefit of gaining serial bronchial washing specimens for diagnosis of TB h...

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Autores principales: Yoo, Hongseok, Song, Jae-Uk, Koh, Won-Jung, Jeon, Kyeongman, Um, Sang-Won, Suh, Gee Young, Chung, Man Pyo, Kim, Hojoong, Kwon, O Jung, Lee, Nam Yong, Woo, Sookyoung, Park, Hye Yun
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2013
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3765986/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/24059248
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1471-2334-13-404