Bronchoalveolar Lavage

**Definition:** Washing out of the lungs with saline or mucolytic agents for diagnostic or therapeutic purposes. It is very useful in the diagnosis of diffuse pulmonary infiltrates in immunosuppressed patients.

**Tree numbers:** - E05.927.100

**Synonyms:** - Bronchioalveolar Lavage - Bronchopulmonary Lavage - Lavage, Bronchopulmonary - Lung Lavage