[The place of bronchoalveolar lavage in the diagnosis of pneumonia in the immunocompromised patient].
CONCLUSION: The place of BAL in the diagnostic work-up of pneumonia occurring in immunocompromised patients must be considered in the framework of a structured consideration, taking into account the diagnostic performance of non invasive microbiological tests and the broad spectrum of lung diseases occurring in this context.
PMID: 32888730 [PubMed - as supplied by publisher]
Source: Revue des Maladies Respiratoires - Category: Respiratory Medicine Tags: Rev Mal Respir Source Type: research
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