INVASIVE PROCEDURES FOR DIAGNOSING PULMONARY INFECTION

A fiberoptic bronchoscopy technique to obtain uncontaminated lower airway secretions for bacterial culture.

Neil Wimberley, L. Jack Faling, John G. Bartlett · PubMed · 1979 · 410 citations

Life Sciences, Clinical Sciences, Microbiology +17

Diagnostic Fiberoptic Bronchoscopy

Donald C. Zavala · CHEST Journal · 1975 · 398 citations

Complications of fiberoptic bronchoscopy.

W F Credle, Joseph F. Smiddy, Richard Elliott · PubMed · 1974 · 304 citations

Medicine, Anesthesiology, Surgery +13

Deaths and Complications Associated with Fiberoptic Bronchoscopy

Paul M. Suratt, Joseph F. Smiddy, Brian Gruber · CHEST Journal · 1976 · 288 citations

Medicine, Clinical Sciences, Surgery +8

The nonvalue of sputum culture in the diagnosis of pneumococcal pneumonia.

E Barrett-Connor · PubMed · 1971 · 267 citations

Life Sciences, Infectious Diseases, Microbiology +14