Customizable airway stents-personalized medicine reaches the airways

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Sohini Ghosh et al. J Thorac Dis. 2019 May.

. 2019 May;11(Suppl 9):S1129-S1131.

doi: 10.21037/jtd.2019.03.100.

¹ Section of Interventional Pulmonology, Division of Pulmonary and Critical Care, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, NC, USA.

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