Ultrasonography in chronic obstructive pulmonary disease: Fact or fiction?

Affiliations

¹ UCL Respiratory, University College London, London, UK; Department of Respiratory Care, Prince Sultan Military College of Health Sciences, Dhahran, Saudi Arabia.
² National Heart and Lung Institute, Imperial College London, London, UK; Department of Respiratory Care, Umm Al-Qura University College of Applied Sciences, Makkah, Saudi Arabia.

Jaber S Alqahtani et al. Lung India. 2020 Jan-Feb.

. 2020 Jan-Feb;37(1):84-85.

doi: 10.4103/lungindia.lungindia_375_19.

¹ UCL Respiratory, University College London, London, UK; Department of Respiratory Care, Prince Sultan Military College of Health Sciences, Dhahran, Saudi Arabia.
² National Heart and Lung Institute, Imperial College London, London, UK; Department of Respiratory Care, Umm Al-Qura University College of Applied Sciences, Makkah, Saudi Arabia.

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