The uncertainties of bronchoalveolar lavage
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The uncertainties of bronchoalveolar lavage.
Correspondence: R.P. Baughman, Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine, University of Cincinnati Medical Center, PO Box 670564, Cincinnati, OH, USA Heisenberg noted that a more accurate determination of one quantity will result in a less precise measurement of another. He proposed this principle to describe the difficulties encountered in quantum mechanics, but it has been encountered in all branc...
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عنوان ژورنال: European Respiratory Journal
سال: 1997
ISSN: 0000-0000,0903-1936
DOI: 10.1183/09031936.97.10091940