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Bronchoalveolar Lavage

Medical Definition: 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.
Guide Notes: an irrigation technique: do not confuse with BRONCHOALVEOLAR LAVAGE FLUID, the washings obtained by lavage; DF: note short X ref
Also Called: Bronchial Lavage
Previously Indexed: Irrigation (1977-1995)

Bronchoalveolar Lavage Medical Definitions and Terms

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