The British Medical Journal, Vol. 2, No. 206 (Dec. 8, 1860), pp. 957-959 (3 pages) ...

Professor E. K. Verbeken, of the University Hospital Gasthuisberg in Leuven, Belgium, presented the second lecture, "Lung Pathology: The Theory of Space Competition," in which he introduced the ...

However, BALF is difficult to standardize and cannot be recommended for studies on COPD pathology, since it is quite common that patients with COPD will have suffered airway collapse so that the ...