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Is the ‘spatially matched central airways’ relevant to studies of airway dimensions in COPD?

https://doi.org/10.1136/thoraxjnl-2014-206118

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Contributors The correspondence was equally written and researched by YN, NVT and HOC.
Competing interests None.
Provenance and peer review Not commissioned; internally peer reviewed.

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