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Assessment of airways inflammation utilizing bronchoalveolar lavage
1Section of Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine, University of Nebraska Medical School, University of Nebraska Medical Center, Omaha.
Clinics in Chest Medicine
|December 1, 1988
Abstract:
Pathologic correlations and examination of expectorated sputum have suggested that chronic bronchitis is an inflammatory disorder of the airways. Bronchoscopy and bronchoalveolar lavage provide a means for sampling airway epithelial lining fluid. Application of bronchoscopy and bronchoalveolar lavage to a group of patients with chronic bronchitis confirms the association of airways inflammation and chronic bronchitis.