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Pulmonary Hypoplasia

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Lungs first develop via epithelial branching and extension into mesenchymal tissue, then by septation and subdivision.

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  1. Division of Neonatology, Duke University Hospital, Durham, NC, USA

    Rebecca Speier

  2. Pediatrics, Duke University Hospital, Durham, NC, USA

    C. Michael Cotten

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  1. Division of Neonatal-Perinatal Medicine, C.S. Mott Children’s Hospital, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI, USA

    Steven M. Donn

  2. Division of Neonatology, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN, USA

    Mark C. Mammel

  3. Department of Neonatology, Emma Children’s Hospital Amsterdam UMC University of Amsterdam, Amsterdam, Noord-Holland, The Netherlands

    Anton H.L.C. van Kaam

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Speier, R., Cotten, C.M. (2022). Pulmonary Hypoplasia. In: Donn, S.M., Mammel, M.C., van Kaam, A.H. (eds) Manual of Neonatal Respiratory Care. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-93997-7_73

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