A Standardized Breath Holding Technique for the Clinical Measurement of the Diffusing Capacity of the Lung for Carbon Monoxide 1
Journal of Clinical InvestigationPublished 1 January 1957Open access
C M Ogilvie, Robert Förster, William S. Blakemore, James W. Morton
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The purpose of the present report is to enumerate some of the factors that affect DL, to describe a standardized technique for its measurement, and to present a standardized index of pulmonary diffusing capacity.
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