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[Pulmonary diffusion of carbon monoxide in patients with mitral stenosis]

C Zamarrón Sanz1, F del Campo Matías, A Amaro Cendón

  • 1Servicio de Neumología, Hospital Clínico Universitario, C/Travesía de la Choupana s/n. 15706, Santiago de Compostela.

Anales De Medicina Interna (Madrid, Spain : 1984)
|May 7, 2002
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