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Eirini Kostakou1, Nicholas Barrett2, Luigi Camporota2

  • 1Department of Adult Critical Care, Guy's and St Thomas' NHS Foundation Trust, King's Health Partners, St Thomas' Hospital, 1st Floor East Wing, Westminster Bridge Road, London, SE1 7EH, UK. ekostakou@yahoo.com.

Critical Care (London, England)
|September 23, 2016
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Keywords:
Chronic obstructive pulmonary diseaseElectrical impedance tomography

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