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Risk factors for idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis
 
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Professor of Pneumonology, Medical School, Democritus University of Thrace, Editor-in Chief PNEUMON
 
 
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Demosthenes Bouros   

Dept. Pneumonology University Hospital of Alexandroupolis
 
 
Pneumon 2013;26(2):117-119
 
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