Prevalence of Benign Diseases Mimicking Lung Cancer: Experience from a University Hospital of Southern Brazil |
Homrich, Gustavo Kohler
(Department of Pneumology, University Hospital of Santa Maria)
Andrade, Cristiano Feijo (Porto Alegre Clinical Hospital) Marchiori, Roseane Cardoso (Department of Pneumology, University Hospital of Santa Maria) Dos Santos Lidtke, Grazielli (Department of Pneumology, University Hospital of Santa Maria) Martins, Fabio Pacheco (Federal University of Santa Maria) Dos Santos, Jose Wellington Alves (Department of Pneumology, University Hospital of Santa Maria) |
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