Title: Impaired Lung Compliance and Dlco but No Restrictive Ventilatory Defect in Sarcoidosis
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Institutions: 1. Lung Function Lab, National Research Institute of TB & Lung Diseases, Warsaw, Poland 2. College of Public Health, The University of Arizona, Tucson, Arizona, USA 3. Department of Pulmonary Diseases and Sophia Childrens Hospital, Erasmus Medical Centre, Erasmus University, Rotterdam, Netherlands 4. Department of Public Health, Erasmus MC, University Medical Centre Rotterdam, the Netherlands 5. Department of Internal Medicine, College of Medicine, Mayo Clinic, Rochester, Minnesota, USA
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Impaired lung compliance and DL,CO but no restrictive ventilatory defect in sarcoidosis.
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تاریخ انتشار 2010