An elderly man with sudden-onset shortness of breath and hydropneumothorax
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Funding This work was supported by the European Union (EU FP6-2005-LIFESCIHEALTH-6; STREP contract number 037631; J.A.K. and M.M.M.) and has been partially funded by Fondation LeDucq (Transatlantic Network, 2009-2014, M.M.M.) N.Z. is supported by a Career Development Award from the Human Frontier Science Program Organization and by a VIDI grant from the Netherlands Organization for Scientific R...
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عنوان ژورنال: Canadian Medical Association Journal
سال: 2006
ISSN: 0820-3946,1488-2329
DOI: 10.1503/cmaj.051046