Niemann-Pick Disease Presented with Cystic Lung Involvement
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Niemann-Pick disease.
doi:10.5152/tjh.2011.15 The peripheral blood smear is an easy, inexpensive, and very useful diagnostic method. Although some think that it has lost its importance following the development of new automated complete blood counts, the peripheral blood smear should remain a primary diagnostic tool for clinicians, especially pediatricians. Peripheral blood smears aid clinicians in choosing the appr...
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عنوان ژورنال: Eurasian Journal of Pulmonology
سال: 2015
ISSN: 2148-3620,2148-5402
DOI: 10.5152/ejp.2015.93063