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Chapter 32 - CT of the Chest

from Part III - Computed Tomography

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  10 June 2017

By
Jonathan Patane  and
Megan Boysen-Osborn
Edited by
J. Christian Fox
J. Christian Fox
Affiliation:
University of California, Irvine
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Clinical Emergency Radiology , pp. 456 - 468
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 2017

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