Pneumothorax Induced by Pulmonary Paragonimiasis: Two Cases Report
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− 572 − Sanitation 1 Medical Academic Center, Thailand Received: October 2, 2014, Revised: October 11, 2014, Accepted: October 14, 2014, Published online: December 5, 2014 Corresponding author: Beuy Joob, Sanitation 1 Medical Academic Center, Bangkok 10160, Thailand (Tel) 66-24658262 (Fax) 66-24658292 (E-mail) [email protected] C The Korean Society for Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery. 2014. All right reserved. CC This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution Non-Commercial License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/3.0) which permits unrestricted non-commercial use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. Pneumothorax Induced by Pulmonary Paragonimiasis: Two Cases Report
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