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The different clinical faces of re-expansion pulmonary edema after treatment of spontaneous pneumothorax
 
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Respiratory Department, Metropolitan General Hospital, Piraeus, Greece
 
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Respiratory Department, Hellenic Air Force General Hospital, Athens, Greece
 
 
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Ioannis Kokkonouzis   

14th Pagasson str, 121 36, Athens, Greece
 
 
Pneumon 2015;28(4):376-377
 
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