Lavado Broncoalveolar: Utilidade clinica

ABSTRACTThe present work consists of a collection of papers that came out from the meeting "Bronchoalveolar Lavage: clinical usefulness". The meeting took place 199R and was organised by the Task Group on Interstitial Lung Diseases. The speakers went trough an extensive review of the clinical usefulness of the technique and then clinical cases were discussed. We choose four original papers on Hypersensitivity pneumonitis, Suberosis, Neoplasms and Infection. Five clinical cases are presented: alveolar protcinosis, Pneumocystis carinii pneumonia, Hypersensitivity pneumonitis, Sarcoidosis, lung cancer and alveolar haemorrhage on a setting of Wegener Granulomatosis.REV PORT PNEUMOL 2000; VI (3): 185-18