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  1. Department of Radiology, Ege University Hospital, Izmir, Turkey

    Selen Bayraktaroglu

  2. Radiology, Emergency Department, La Sapienza University of Rome, Rome, Italy

    Chiara Andreoli

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Bayraktaroglu, S., Andreoli, C. (2016). Pleural Diseases. In: Scaglione, M., Linsenmaier, U., Schueller, G., Berger, F., Wirth, S. (eds) Emergency Radiology of the Chest and Cardiovascular System. Medical Radiology(). Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/174_2016_43

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