Imaging and COPD.

J Bras Pneumol

Laboratório de Pesquisa em Imagens Médicas, Pavilhão Pereira Filho, Santa Casa de Misericórdia de Porto Alegre, Porto Alegre, RS, Brazil.

Published: August 2016

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