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. 2021 Jan 20;33(12):930–934. doi: 10.3967/bes2020.127

Pulmonary Nodules Developed Rapidly in Staffs in the Isolation Ward of a Chinese Hospital during the COVID-19 Epidemic*

Yu Hua LI a,&, Ke Wen YU b,&, Neng Jun SUN c, Xiao Dong JIN d, Xin LUO a, Jing YANG e, Bing HE a,#, Bo LI f,#
PMCID: PMC7817461  PMID: 33472733

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Biographies

Biographical notes of the first authors: LI Yu Hua, female, born in 1977, MM, majoring in the imaging diagnosis of respiratory system disease

YU Ke Wen, male, born in 1971, BM, majoring in the diagnosis and treatment of respiratory system disease.

Footnotes

This study was supported by the Natural Science Foundation of China [No. 81700321] and the Key Research and Development Plan of Shandong Province [2018GSF118140].

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