Exhaled breath condensate (EBC): An alternative or additional diagnostic?

Breath Analysis for Clinical Diagnosis and Therapeutic Monitoring

Volumn , Issue , 2005, Pages 421-427

  Becher, G ^a   Rothe, M ^a   Decker, M ^a  

^a FILT Lungen und Thoraxdiagnostik GmbH   (Germany)

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EID: 84967425078     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1142/9789812701954_0030     Document Type: Chapter

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