Bronchoscopy for the solitary pulmonary nodule: friend or foe?

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Editorial

Gerard A Silvestri. Chest. 2012 Aug.

. 2012 Aug;142(2):276-277.

doi: 10.1378/chest.12-0135.

¹ Division of Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine, Medical University of South Carolina, Charleston, SC. Electronic address: silvestri@musc.edu.

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