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Alexandros Kalifatidis1, George Lazaridis1, Sofia Baka1

  • 11 Department of Radiology, 2 Thoracic Surgery, "Saint Luke" Private Hospital, Thessaloniki, Greece ; 2 Department of Medical Oncology, Aristotle University School of Medicine, Thessaloniki, Greece ; 3 Oncology Department, "Interbalkan" European Medical Center, Thessaloniki, Greece ; 4 Oncology Department, "BioMedicine" Private Clinic, Thessaloniki, Greece ; 5 Pulmonary-Oncology, "G. Papanikolaou" General Hospital, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Thessaloniki, Greece ; 6 Thoracic Surgery Department, "Saint Luke" Private Hospital, Thessaloniki, Greece ; 7 Surgery Department, University General Hospital of Alexandroupolis, Alexandroupolis, Greece ; 8 Pathology Department, "G. Papanikolaou" General Hospital, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Thessaloniki, Greece ; 9 Oncology Department, "Saint Luke" Private Hospital, Thessaloniki, Greece.

Journal of Thoracic Disease
|March 17, 2015
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