2010: The year of the lung

European Respiratory Journal

Volumn 37, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 1-2

  Siafakas, N M ^a   Decramer, M ^b   Rabe, K F ^c,d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CRETE   (Greece)

^b UNIVERSITY OF LEUVEN   (Belgium)

^c UNIVERSITY OF KIEL   (Germany)

^d Clinic Grosshansdorf   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ASTHMA; CHRONIC OBSTRUCTIVE LUNG DISEASE; EDITORIAL; HEALTH CARE POLICY; LUNG; LUNG CANCER; MEDICAL RESEARCH; PNEUMONIA; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PULMONOLOGY; RESPIRATORY TRACT DISEASE; SLEEP DISORDERED BREATHING; TUBERCULOSIS; WORLD HEALTH ORGANIZATION;

BIOMEDICAL RESEARCH; EUROPE; HUMANS; INTERNATIONAL COOPERATION; LUNG DISEASES; PULMONARY DISEASE, CHRONIC OBSTRUCTIVE; PULMONARY MEDICINE; SMOKING;

EID: 79251540223     PISSN: 09031936     EISSN: 13993003     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1183/09031936.00171210     Document Type: Editorial

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