Diagnostic Invasive Procedures in Diffuse Infiltrative Lung Diseases

Aberrant Wnt/β-Catenin Pathway Activation in Idiopathic Pulmonary Fibrosis

2003 • 663 citations

Open Biopsy for Chronic Diffuse Infiltrative Lung Disease: Clinical, Roentgenographic, and Physiological Correlations in 502 Patients

1980 • 346 citations

Radiologic Findings Are Strongly Associated With a Pathologic Diagnosis of Usual Interstitial Pneumonia

2003 • 316 citations

Pneumonia in Febrile Neutropenic Patients and in Bone Marrow and Blood Stem-Cell Transplant Recipients: Use of High-Resolution Computed Tomography

1999 • 301 citations

Histologic Diagnosis of Extrinsic Allergic Alveolitis

1988 • 252 citations

Acute exacerbation of idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis: report of a series

2003 • 218 citations

Pulmonary infiltrates in non-HIV immunocompromised patients: a diagnostic approach using non-invasive and bronchoscopic procedures

2001 • 207 citations

Late‐onset noninfectious pulmonary complications after allogeneic bone marrow transplantation

1998 • 200 citations

Bronchoalveolar lavage in interstitial lung disease

2001 • 160 citations

Secondary alveolar proteinosis is a reversible cause of respiratory failure in leukemic patients.

1994 • 149 citations

The diagnostic value of bronchoalveolar lavage and transbronchial lung biopsy in cryptogenic organizing pneumonia

1996 • 128 citations

Pediatric fiberoptic bronchoscopy: Clinical experience with 2,836 bronchoscopies

2002 • 117 citations

Transbronchial Biopsy in the Diagnosis of Pulmonary Infiltrates in Immunocompromised Patients

1995 • 116 citations

TRANSBRONCHOSCOPIC LUNG BIOPSY IN DIFFUSE PULMONARY DISEASE.

1965 • 113 citations

Safety and yield of transbronchial biopsy in mechanically ventilated patients

1997 • 111 citations

Identification of poor prognostic features among patients requiring mechanical ventilation after hematopoietic stem cell transplantation

2001 • 108 citations

The Value of Flexible Transbronchial Needle Aspiration in the Diagnosis of Stage I Sarcoidosis

2003 • 108 citations

Early and long-term complaints following video-assisted thoracoscopic surgery: evaluation in 173 patients✩

2000 • 106 citations

Clinical Utility of Bronchoalveolar Lavage in Immunocompromised Hosts

1992 • 102 citations

Combined bronchoalveolar lavage and transbronchial lung biopsy: safety and yield in ventilated patients

2003 • 102 citations

Anatomic Distribution and Histopathologic Patterns in Diffuse Lung Disease

1996 • 100 citations

Transbronchial lung biopsy: an analysis of 530 cases with reference to the number of samples.

1997 • 88 citations

Prognostic Factors of Non-HIV Immunocompromised Patients With Pulmonary Infiltrates

2002 • 83 citations

Diagnostic Approach to the Patient With Diffuse Lung Disease

2002 • 78 citations

Computed tomography and magnetic resonance imaging: past, present and future

2002 • 77 citations

Transbronchial Lung Biopsy

1998 • 77 citations

Acute interstitial pneumonia: report of a series

2002 • 74 citations

A persistent challenge: the diagnosis of respiratory disease in the non-AIDS immunocompromised host

2000 • 67 citations

Videothoracoscopic lung biopsy in the diagnosis of interstitial lung disease

1999 • 66 citations

Diagnostic Accuracy of Transbronchial Biopsy in Acute Farmer's Lung Disease

1997 • 64 citations

Pulmonary Infiltrates in Immunosuppressed Patients: Analysis of a Diagnostic Protocol

2002 • 60 citations

Lingular and Right Middle Lobe Biopsy in the Assessment of Diffuse Lung Disease

1987 • 58 citations

Role of Fine-Needle Aspirates of Focal Lung Lesions in Patients With Hematologic Malignancies

2002 • 54 citations

Transbronchial Needle Aspiration in the Diagnosis of Intrathoracic Lymphadenopathy

2002 • 52 citations

Bronchoscopy with bronchoalveolar lavage via the laryngeal mask airway in high-risk hypoxemic immunosuppressed patients

2001 • 52 citations

Induced sputum for diagnosingPneumocystis cariniipneumonia in HIV patients: new data, new issues

2003 • 50 citations

Sensitivity and Specificity of Lingular Segmental Biopsies of the Lung

1986 • 44 citations

Induced sputum: diagnostic value in interstitial lung disease

2000 • 40 citations

Is bronchoalveolar lavage obsolete in the diagnosis of interstitial lung disease?

2003 • 40 citations

Bronchoalveolar lavage in the diagnosis of disseminated lung tumors

1995 • 39 citations

Site-directed bronchoalveolar lavage and transbronchial biopsy in HIV-infected patients with pneumonia.

1995 • 39 citations

Hermansky-pudlak syndrome and interstitial lung disease: report of a case with lavage findings.

1984 • 39 citations

The Effect of Forceps Size on the Adequacy of Specimens Obtained by Transbronchial Biopsy

1993 • 37 citations

The role of induced sputum in the diagnosis of pulmonary tuberculosis

2003 • 34 citations

Transbronchial lung biopsy in infiltrative lung disease. The importance of the pathologic approach.

1988 • 28 citations

A new technique for transbronchial biopsy in infants and small children

1995 • 28 citations

High-Resolution Computed Tomography in the Diagnosis of Diffuse Lung Disease: A Clinical Perspective

2003 • 26 citations

Induced sputum: opening a new window to the lung.

2001 • 22 citations

Recent advances in the diagnosis and management of nonspecific interstitial pneumonia

2003 • 22 citations

Bronchoalveolar lavage in a girl with Gaucher's disease. A case report.

1994 • 19 citations

Steroid treatment based on the findings of transbronchial biopsy in idiopathic interstitial pneumonia

2002 • 16 citations

The effect of lung biopsy on lung function in diffuse lung disease

2000 • 16 citations

Flexible bronchoscopy in the diagnosis of pulmonary infiltrates following autologous peripheral stem cell transplantation for advanced breast cancer

2001 • 16 citations

[Chronic hypersensitivity pneumonitis or idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis? Diagnostic role of high resolution Computed Tomography (HRCT)].

2003 • 14 citations

Pulmonary infiltrates in the immunocompromised: diagnosis and management.

2002 • 14 citations

Bronchoalveolar lavage and transbronchial lung biopsy in alveolar and/or ground-glass opacification.

1999 • 12 citations

Delayed non-infectious lung disease in allogeneic bone marrow transplant recipients.

2001 • 11 citations

The Lung in the Immunocompromised Host: Diagnostic Methods

1999 • 10 citations

Pulmonary disease in patients with hematologic malignancies.

2002 • 10 citations

High-Resolution Computed Tomography Techniques in Diffuse Parenchymal Lung Disease and Their Application to Clinical Practice

2003 • 6 citations

Open lung biopsy for chronic diffuse infiltrative lung disease

1991 • 2 citations