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Comment
. 2013 Aug;144(2):720.
doi: 10.1378/chest.13-0969.

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Eduardo Pimenta  1 , David A Calhoun  2
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Eduardo Pimenta et al. Chest. 2013 Aug.
No abstract available

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Financial/nonfinancial disclosures: The authors have reported to CHEST that no potential conflicts of interest exist with any companies/organizations whose products or services may be discussed in this article.

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