BAL provides a relatively noninvasive means of assessing some occupational exposures, for example, asbestos bodies in the lavage fluid ... proliferative response of bronchoalveolar mononuclear ...

This study was designed to investigate the effective volume of therapeutic bronchoalveolar lavage (BAL) with diluted surfactant in the treatment of MAS in newborn piglets. Human meconium was ...

Detection of molecular abnormalities in bronchoscopy samples (bronchoalveolar lavage [BAL], bronchoscopic brushings and bronchial biopsies), although more invasive than blood and sputum analyses ...