Extrinsic allergic alveolitis

Tengku Ismail1, Charles McSharry, Gavin Boyd

  • 1Faculty of Medicine, Universiti Teknologi MARA, Shah Alam, Malaysia, and North Glasgow University Hospitals NHS Trust, UK. tengkusaifudin@yahoo.co.uk

Respirology (Carlton, Vic.)
|April 26, 2006
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