INTERSTITIAL LUNG DISEASE British Thoracic Society Study on cryptogenic fibrosing alveolitis: response to treatment and survival
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Robin M Rudd, Robin J Prescott, J C Chalmers, Ian D A Johnston, for the Fibrosing Alveolitis Subcommittee of the Research Committee of the British Thoracic Society . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
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