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) |
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