The diagnostic value of the bronchoalveolar lavage in interstitial lung diseases.
Boubacar EfaredG Ebang-AtsameSani RabiouAbdoulsalam S DiarraLayla TahiriNawal HammasMohamed SmahiBouchra AmaraMohamed C BenjellounMounia SerrajLaila ChbaniHinde El FatemiPublished in: Journal of negative results in biomedicine (2017)
Alone, the BAL cytological analysis has a limited value to provide substantial information that could lead to discriminate between diseases that form ILD. Thus, it must be always associated with other diagnostic methods.