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Worawat Chumpangern1, Apichart So-Ngern2, Praewpanit Toomsongkram1

  • 1Division of Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine, Department of Medicine, Faculty of Medicine, Khon Kaen University, Khon Kaen, Thailand.

Journal of thoracic disease
|November 18, 2024
PubMed
概括

结合肺部活检,细胞块和细胞学,可显著改善排泄性肺部溢出诊断. 与单独使用细胞学和细胞块相比,这种方法提供了更高的诊断产量.

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