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open lung biopsy

Known as: Open biopsy of lung, lung open biopsy 
Removal of tissue from the lung, for microscopic examination, obtained during an open surgical procedure.
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Review
2002
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2002
Open lung biopsy in bone marrow transplant recipients has a poor diagnostic yield for a specific diagnosis
Abstract: The diagnostic yield of open lung biopsy (OLB) in bone marrow transplantation (BMT) recipients having pulmonary… 
1996
1996
Bronchoalveolar lavage, histological and immunohistochemical features in cryptogenic organizing pneumonia.
This study describes bronchoalveolar lavage (BAL), histological and immunohistochemical features in a series of 10 patients with… 
1987
1987
Normal lung perfusion scan with extensive thromboembolic disease.
A 50-year-old woman with unexplained pulmonary hypertension had normal findings on six-view lung perfusion scan prior to open… 
1987
1987
Fibreoptic bronchoscopy in diagnosis of bronchopulmonary Kaposi's sarcoma.
Kaposi's sarcoma of the lung patients with the acquired immune deficiency syndrome is often indistinguishable by clinical and… 
1985
1985
[Pulmonary metastasis of an ameloblastoma].
We report the observation of a 78 year old patient who had a plexiform ameloblastoma since the age of 38. A systematic pulmonary… 
1983
1983
Reversible pulmonary injury after a small dose of bleomycin.
A man with chronic lymphocytic leukemia had a rapidly progressive five-lobe infiltrate of the lungs after treatment with 60 mg of… 
1982
1982
Quantitative assessment of water content of human lung: a study on open lung biopsy specimen.
Quantitative assessments of human lung water are necessary to evaluate lung water changes, but little knowledge is available… 
1980
1980
Comparison of Standard and Large Forceps for Transbronchial Lung Biopsy in the Diagnosis of Lung Infiltrates
In order to determine whether larger biopsy forceps improve the diagnostic yield over smaller standard forceps, we performed 30… 
1976
1976
Open lung biopsy.
During 16 years (1958-1974) 327 open lung biopsies were carried out in the Tuberculosis and Respiratory Diseases Research… 
1974
1974
Bronchial brush biopsy in Hodgkin's disease.
Twenty-six bronchial brush biopsies were performed in 21 patients with Hodgkin's disease. In most, brush biopsy was performed to…