Pulmonary rehabilitation: The standard practice... not yet standard

Annals of Thoracic Medicine

Volumn 1, Issue 2, 2006, Pages 65-66

  Al Moamary, Mohamed S ^a  

^a KING SAUD BIN ABDULAZIZ UNIVERSITY FOR HEALTH SCIENCES   (Saudi Arabia)

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EID: 33748683347     PISSN: 18171737     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.4103/1817-1737.27103     Document Type: Editorial

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