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Rare (pulmonary) disease day: "feeding the breath, energy for life!"
Sergio Harari1, Edmund M T Lau2, Yuichi Tamura3
1UO Pneumologia e Terapia Semi-Intensiva Respiratoria, Servizio di Fisiopatologia Respiratoria ed Emodinamica Polmonare, Ospedale San Giuseppe - MultiMedica, Milan, Italy sharari@ilpolmone.it.
The European Respiratory Journal
|February 6, 2015
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