Idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis: securing a confident diagnosis for every patient.
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Affiliations: Academic Unit of Clinical and Experimental Sciences, University of Southampton Faculty of Medicine, University Hospital Southampton, Southampton, UK. Southampton NIHR Respiratory Biomedical Research Unit, University Hospital Southampton, Southampton, UK. Dept of Radiology, Kings College Hospital Foundation Trust, London, UK. Dept of Pathology, University of California San Francisco, San Francisco, CA, USA.
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ورودعنوان ژورنال:
- The European respiratory journal
دوره 47 4 شماره
صفحات -
تاریخ انتشار 2016