[Cytomorphologic changes detected in bronchial biopsy specimens in patients with alveolitis].
Eighty-nine patients with alveolitis were followed up. Of them, 60 patients had exogenous allergic alveolitis (EAA) and 29 had idiopathic fibrosing alveolitis (IFA). Transbronchial lung biopsy (TLB) proved to be the most informative method for alveolitis. At the same time a cytomorphologic study of TLB specimens revealed exogenous allergic alveolitis in all phases of the disease in 91.2% of the cases. In idiopathic fibrosing alveolitis, the informative value of TLB was 59.7%.
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D000293:Adolescent; D000328:Adult; D000542:Alveolitis, Extrinsic Allergic / Q000473:pathology*; D001707:Biopsy, Needle / Q000379:methods; D005500:Follow-Up Studies; D006801:Humans; D008168:Lung / Q000473:pathology*; D008875:Middle Aged; D011658:Pulmonary Fibrosis / Q000473:pathology*; D012680:Sensitivity and Specificity