A Twenty-Year-Old Woman with Hemoptysis
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Ilad Alavi Darazam , Atefeh Fakharian , Mohmmad Behgam Shadmehr , Atosa Dorudinia , Davood Mansouri 1,5 1 Department of Internal Medicine, Division of Infectious Disease and Clinical Immunology, 2 Chronic Respiratory Disease Research Center, 3 Tracheal Disease Research Center, 4 Department of Pathology, 5 Clinical Tuberculosis and Epidemiology Research Center, NRITLD, Shahid Beheshti University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran.
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