Bronchoalveolar Lavage [bronchoalveolární laváž]
- Terms
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BAL
bronchiální laváž
bronchioalveolární laváž
plicní laváž
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Bronchial Lavage
Bronchioalveolar Lavage
Bronchopulmonary Lavage
Lavage, Bronchopulmonary
Lung Lavage
Washing out of the lungs with saline or mucolytic agents for diagnostic or therapeutic purposes. It is very useful in the diagnosis of diffuse pulmonary infiltrates in immunosuppressed patients.
- Annotation
- an irrigation technique: do not confuse with BRONCHOALVEOLAR LAVAGE FLUID, the washings obtained by lavage
- DUI
- D018893 MeSH Browser
- CUI
- M0028253
- Previous indexing
- Irrigation (1977-1995)
- History note
- 96
- Public note
- 96
Allowable subheadings
- AE
- adverse effects 4
- CL
- classification 1
- EC
- economics
- ES
- ethics 1
- HI
- history 1
- IS
- instrumentation 6
- MT
- methods 60
- MO
- mortality
- NU
- nursing 1
- PX
- psychology
- ST
- standards 1
- SN
- statistics & numerical data 3
- TD
- trends
- VE
- veterinary