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[Effect of positive expiratory pressure on pulmonary gas exchange in elderly people with accelerated aging]

O V Korkushko, E O Asanov, I A Dyba

    Fiziolohichnyi Zhurnal (Kiev, Ukraine : 1994)
    |March 17, 2012
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