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Arschang Valipour1, Mordechai R Kramer, Franz Stanzel

  • 1Department of Respiratory and Critical Care Medicine, Ludwig-Boltzmann-Institute for COPD, Otto Wagner Hospital Vienna, Austria.

Frontiers in Physiology
|October 13, 2012
PubMed
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Keywords:
lung volume reductionphysiological modeling of emphysema

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