Vanishing Lung Syndrome of Uncommon Size
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Chenyang Ye, MD, Ji Wang, MD and Ying Chai, MD* *Department of Thoracic Surgery, the Second Affiliated Hospital, College of Medicine, Zhejiang University, Hangzhou, China (E-mail: [email protected]) The authors have no financial or other conflicts of interest to disclose. This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 3.0 License, where it is permissible to download and share the work provided it is properly cited. The work cannot be changed in any way or used commercially.
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دوره 349 شماره
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تاریخ انتشار 2015