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Letters15 November 1993Quantifying Lymphocytes in Bronchoalveolar Lavage FluidSamuel N. Breit, MDSamuel N. Breit, MDSearch for more papers by this authorAuthor, Article, and Disclosure Informationhttps://doi.org/10.7326/0003-4819-119-10-199311150-00021 SectionsAboutFull TextPDF ToolsAdd to favoritesDownload CitationsTrack CitationsPermissions ShareFacebookTwitterLinkedInRedditEmail IN RESPONSE:Both letters comment on the apparently high percentage of lymphocytes in the preradiotherapy group [1]. These lymphocyte percentages are due to important methodologic variables and not to another underlying abnormality. In our study, the pre-radiotherapy total cell number (22.4 18.9 million) and proportion of lymphocytes (34.5% 13.4%) before radiotherapy did not differ significantly from the values for normal persons (34.7 19 million and 29.1% 12.9%, respectively) [2], which we have determined in other studies [2, 3].These letters do highlight an important common misconception about lymphocyte counts in bronchoalveolar lavage samples that is based on data from the ...
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