title: [Bronchoalveolar lavage: clinical routine examination or research method?].
abstract: Bronchoalveolar lavage is a relative simple bronchological method just slightly loading the patient. The data about recovered cellular fraction--except the detection of tumour cells and certain pathogens--rarely forms a basis for diagnosis. The determination of the activity of inflammatory processes on the basis of cellular data or immunocytological characteristics can not be considered reliable parameter to be used in the clinical practice. Bronchoalveolar lavage proved to be an optimal experimental method to study the pathomechanism of different lung diseases. Due to the high costs, examinations are worth performing only in well equipped centres.
authors.affiliation: Országos Korányi Tbc és Pulmonológiai Intézet, Budapest.
authors.forename: J
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Strausz
mesh_terms: D001992:Bronchoalveolar Lavage Fluid / Q000166:cytology*; D003937:Diagnosis, Differential; D006801:Humans; D008171:Lung Diseases / Q000175:diagnosis* / Q000473:pathology; D008175:Lung Neoplasms / Q000175:diagnosis* / Q000473:pathology; D012106:Research
vernacular_title: Bronchoalveolaris lavage: klinikai rutinvizsgálat, vagy kutatási módszer?