Bronchoalveolar Lavage

Bronchioalveolar Lavage; Bronchopulmonary Lavage; Lavage, Bronchopulmonary; Bronchial Lavages; Bronchioalveolar Lavages; Bronchoalveolar Lavages; Bronchopulmonary Lavages; Lavage, Bronchial; Lavage, Bronchioalveolar; Lavage, Bronchoalveolar; Lavage, Lung
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.