Bronchoscopic lung volume reduction: A window for the future?

Respiration

Volumn 71, Issue 3, 2004, Pages 214-215

  Bouros, Demosthenes ^a   Froudarakis, Marios E ^b  

^a DEMOCRITUS UNIVERSITY OF THRACE   (Greece)

^b UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL OF IRAKLION   (Greece)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CLINICAL TRIAL; DISEASE EXACERBATION; DISEASE SEVERITY; EDITORIAL; EMPHYSEMA; FIBEROPTIC BRONCHOSCOPY; FOLLOW UP; FORCED EXPIRATORY VOLUME; FUTUROLOGY; HUMAN; LUNG BULLA; LUNG FUNCTION; LUNG RESECTION; NONHUMAN; PNEUMOTHORAX; PRIORITY JOURNAL; STERNOTOMY; THORACOTOMY; TREATMENT INDICATION; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

BRONCHOSCOPY; EMPHYSEMA; HUMANS; PNEUMONECTOMY;

EID: 2342485640     PISSN: 00257931     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1159/000077417     Document Type: Editorial

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