Idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis: securing a confident diagnosis for every patient
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Idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis: securing a confident diagnosis for every patient.
Affiliations: Academic Unit of Clinical and Experimental Sciences, University of Southampton Faculty of Medicine, University Hospital Southampton, Southampton, UK. Southampton NIHR Respiratory Biomedical Research Unit, University Hospital Southampton, Southampton, UK. Dept of Radiology, Kings College Hospital Foundation Trust, London, UK. Dept of Pathology, University of California San Francisc...
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ژورنال
عنوان ژورنال: European Respiratory Journal
سال: 2016
ISSN: 0903-1936,1399-3003
DOI: 10.1183/13993003.00265-2016