Chest radiography and tuberculosis case-finding in Western Australia
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Endobronchial Tuberculosis and Chest Radiography
Endobronchial tuberculosis and chest radiography I read, with interest, the article entitled “Clinical and Para-clinical Presentations of Endobronchial Tuberculosis” by Ahmadi Hoseini H. S. et al. (1) published in this journal. I would like to focus on some details about the chest X-ray of patients as elaborated by the authors in the results section. Accordingly, the findings of chest radiograp...
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عنوان ژورنال: Respiratory Medicine
سال: 1998
ISSN: 0954-6111
DOI: 10.1016/s0954-6111(98)90095-6