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Bronchoalveolar lavage and lung biopsy in connective tissue diseases, to do or not to do?

Bronchoalveolar lavage and lung biopsy (LBx) are helpful in patients with connective tissue diseases (CTD) and interstitial lung diseases (ILD) regardless of cause, including infectious, noninfectious, immunologic, or malignant. The decision whether to perform only bronchoalveolar lavage (BAL), and...

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Autores principales: Tomassetti, Sara, Colby, Thomas V., Wells, Athol U., Poletti, Venerino, Costabel, Ulrich, Matucci-Cerinic, Marco
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: SAGE Publications 2021
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8664307/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/34900002
http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/1759720X211059605