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Spontaneous regression of multiple emphysematous bullae

H Satoh1, T Suyama, Y T Yamashita

  • 1University of Tsukuba, Ibaraaki, Japan. hirosato@md.tsukuba.ac.jp

Canadian Respiratory Journal
|November 26, 1999
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