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Published on: February 23, 2014
Special Issue: Rare Respiratory Diseases: A Personal and Public Health Issue
María Magallón1,2, Lucía Bañuls1,2, Silvia Castillo1,3
1Research Group on Rare Respiratory Diseases (ERR), Instituto de Investigación Sanitaria INCLIVA, Fundación Investigación Hospital Clínico Valencia, Avda. Menéndez y Pelayo, 4, 46010 Valencia, Spain.
Abstract:
In the 1970s, the term "rare disease" was coined to describe a category of inherited metabolic diseases with low prevalence and a wide range of symptoms [...].
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