Reply: BAL lymphocyte percentage is as good as the company it keeps
- 17 February 2021
- journal article
- letter
- Published by European Respiratory Society (ERS) in European Respiratory Journal
- Vol. 57 (2), 2100092
- https://doi.org/10.1183/13993003.00092-2021
Abstract
No single value of BAL lymphocyte % in fibrotic hypersensitivity pneumonitis will be diagnostic for all, and it must be considered in the context of other clinical, radiological and histopathological features https://bit.ly/3qSwUDoThis publication has 6 references indexed in Scilit:
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