Disease-specific Severity Measures and Health-related Quality of Life in Idiopathic Pulmonary Fibrosis
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عنوان ژورنال: Internal Medicine: Open Access
سال: 2014
ISSN: 2165-8048
DOI: 10.4172/2165-8048.1000138