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
Lung Neoplams -- therapy : International Association for the Study of Lung Cancer textbook of prevention and detection of early lung cancer / edited by Fred R. Hirsch [and others]
Lung Neoplasms -- chemically induced. : Health effects of exposure to radon : time for reassessment? / Committee on Health Effects of Exposure to Radon (BEIR VI), Board on Radiation Effects Research, Commission on Life Sciences, National Research Council
A syndrome characterized by progressive life-threatening RESPIRATORY INSUFFICIENCY in the absence of known LUNG DISEASES, usually following a systemic insult such as surgery or major TRAUMA