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Review
. 2001 Dec 8;323(7325):1349-53.
doi: 10.1136/bmj.323.7325.1349.

Recent advances: Respiratory medicine

H A Kerstjens  1 , H J Groen, W van Der Bij
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Review

Recent advances: Respiratory medicine

H A Kerstjens et al. BMJ. .
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Figures

Figure 1
Figure 1
Median changes in forced expiratory volume in one second (top) and forced vital capacity (bottom) in patients after surgical reduction of lung volume and after medical treatment for emphysema. The median changes were obtained by comparing the responses of each subject with baseline values. Reproduced with permission from Geddes et al7
Figure 2
Figure 2
Computed tomography (CT) and positron emission tomography (PET) findings in a patient with squamous cell carcinoma of the right lung. Top: Level 2 CT. Centre and bottom: Axial and coronal PET respectively of area shown by arrow in CT. No abnormal mediastinal lymph nodes were seen on CT, but uptake of 2-deoxyglucose labelled with 18F was increased on PET (arrows). Reproduced with permission from Pieterman et al24
Figure 2
Figure 2
Computed tomography (CT) and positron emission tomography (PET) findings in a patient with squamous cell carcinoma of the right lung. Top: Level 2 CT. Centre and bottom: Axial and coronal PET respectively of area shown by arrow in CT. No abnormal mediastinal lymph nodes were seen on CT, but uptake of 2-deoxyglucose labelled with 18F was increased on PET (arrows). Reproduced with permission from Pieterman et al24
Figure 2
Figure 2
Computed tomography (CT) and positron emission tomography (PET) findings in a patient with squamous cell carcinoma of the right lung. Top: Level 2 CT. Centre and bottom: Axial and coronal PET respectively of area shown by arrow in CT. No abnormal mediastinal lymph nodes were seen on CT, but uptake of 2-deoxyglucose labelled with 18F was increased on PET (arrows). Reproduced with permission from Pieterman et al24
Figure 3
Figure 3
Actuarial survival after lung transplantation. Modified data from the International Society for Heart and Lung Transplantation, 2001 (www.eshlt.org)
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