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  1. Second Pulmonary Department, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, Attikon University Hospital, Athens, Greece

    Spyros A. Papiris

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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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Papiris, S.A., Roussos, C. (2006). Clinical Presentation 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_9

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