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Nomograms to follow recovery rate in status asthmaticus in a veteran population

W B Klaustermeyer1, J L Kinney

  • 1Allergy and Immunology Section, West Los Angeles Veterans Affairs Medical Center, CA 90073, USA.

Military Medicine
|May 2, 1998
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