منابع مشابه
Pulmonary Complications
were most common. We designed this study to update the pulmonary complications associated with illicit drug use in the 1990s. Design: Concurrent and retrospective chart review. Setting: Inner-city municipal hospital. Patients: All illicit drug users with pulmonary compli¬ cations seen by the pulmonary consult service were enrolled in the study. There were 105 hospital admis¬ sions of 97 patient...
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ژورنال
عنوان ژورنال: Annals of Surgery
سال: 1943
ISSN: 0003-4932
DOI: 10.1097/00000658-194311760-00006