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[Considerations on pleural puncturo biopsy, based on the results of an analysis of 100 samples]

C Ionescu, R Hreniue, G Dobrescu

    Revista De Igiena, Bacteriologie, Virusologie, Parazitologie, Epidemiologie, Pneumoftiziologie. Pneumoftiziologia
    |April 1, 1979
    PubMed

    Keywords:
    pleural biopsypleural effusiondiagnostic accuracyclinical methods

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