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. 1991 Mar;154(3):315–321.

Resolution of Pulmonary Edema

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Michael A Matthay
PMCID: PMC1002752  PMID: 2028590

Abstract

This discussion was selected from the weekly staff conferences in the Department of Medicine, University of California, San Francisco. Taken from a transcription, it has been edited by Homer A. Boushey, MD, Professor of Medicine, and Nathan M. Bass, MD, PhD, Associate Professor of Medicine, under the direction of Lloyd H. Smith, Jr, MD, Professor of Medicine and Associate Dean in the School of Medicine.

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