Assessing airway inflammation in clinical practice – experience with spontaneous sputum analysis
<p>Abstract</p> <p>Background</p> <p>The assessment of airway inflammation for the diagnosis of asthma or COPD is still uncommon in pneumology-specialized general practices. In this respect, the measurement of exhaled nitric oxide (NO), as a fast and simple methodology,...
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| Format: | Article |
| Language: | English |
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BMC
2008-02-01
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| Series: | BMC Pulmonary Medicine |
| Online Access: | http://www.biomedcentral.com/1471-2466/8/5 |