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. 2020 Apr 1;201(7):879-880.
doi: 10.1164/rccm.201911-2154LE.

Reply to Janssen and Wouters: Loss of Alveolar Attachments as a Pathomechanistic Link between Small Airway Disease and Emphysema

Dragoş M Vasilescu  1 , Tillie-Louise Hackett  1 , Fernando J Martinez  2 , Jeffrey L Curtis  3   4 , James C Hogg  1 , MeiLan K Han  4
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Reply to Janssen and Wouters: Loss of Alveolar Attachments as a Pathomechanistic Link between Small Airway Disease and Emphysema

Dragoş M Vasilescu et al. Am J Respir Crit Care Med. .
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