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Lobar analysis of collapsibility indices to assess functional lung volumes in COPD patients

BACKGROUND: We investigated correlations between lung volume collapsibility indices and pulmonary function test (PFT) results and assessed lobar differences in chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) patients, using paired inspiratory and expiratory three dimensional (3D) computed tomography (C...

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Autores principales: Kitano, Mariko, Iwano, Shingo, Hashimoto, Naozumi, Matsuo, Keiji, Hasegawa, Yoshinori, Naganawa, Shinji
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Dove Medical Press 2014
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4266257/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/25525352
http://dx.doi.org/10.2147/COPD.S72616