Pneumonia following rupture of echinococcal cyst: diagnosis with bronchoalveolar lavage.

Pediatr Pulmonol

Division of Pediatric Intensive Care and Pulmonology, University Children's Hospital, Basel, Switzerland.

Published: December 1998

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