Sputum induction in children with difficult asthma: safety, feasibility, and inflammatory cell pattern.

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Published in Pediatr Pulmonol on April 01, 2005

Authors

Christiane Lex1, Donald N R Payne, Angela Zacharasiewicz, Albert M Li, Nicola M Wilson, Trevor T Hansel, Andrew Bush

Author Affiliations

1: Department of Respiratory Paediatrics, Royal Brompton Hospital, London, UK.

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