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  1. Royal Brompton Hospital, London, UK

    Pallav L. Shah

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  1. Sotiria General Hospital, Athens Medical School, Athens, Greece

    Konstantinos N. Syrigos MD, PhD

  2. Royal Marsden NHS Trust Hospitals, London, UK

    Christopher M. Nutting MB BA, MD, FRCR

  3. Evangelismos General Hospital, Athens Medical School, Athens, Greece

    Charis Roussos MD, MSc, PhD, MRS, FRCP(C)

  4. Faculty of Medicine, McGill University, Montreal, Canada

    Charis Roussos MD, MSc, PhD, MRS, FRCP(C)

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Shah, P.L. (2006). The Role of Bronchoscopy and the Diagnosis and Staging of Lung Cancer. In: Syrigos, K.N., Nutting, C.M., Roussos, C. (eds) Tumors of the Chest. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg . https://doi.org/10.1007/3-540-31040-1_10

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