Respiratory Medicine
Volume 103, Issue 8 , Pages 1122-1129 , August 2009

Epidemiology of interstitial lung diseases in Greece

  • A. Karakatsani

      Affiliations

    • 2nd Department of Pneumonology, Medical School, University of Athens and “Attikon” University Hospital, Greece
    • ,
  • D. Papakosta

      Affiliations

    • Department of Pneumonology, University of Thessaloniki, G. Papanikolaou Hospital, Greece
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  • A. Rapti

      Affiliations

    • Departments of Thoracic Medicine, “SOTIRIA” Chest Diseases Hospital, Athens, Greece
    • ,
  • K.M. Antoniou

      Affiliations

    • Department of Thoracic Medicine, Medical school, University of Crete, Greece
    • ,
  • M. Dimadi

      Affiliations

    • Departments of Thoracic Medicine, “SOTIRIA” Chest Diseases Hospital, Athens, Greece
    • ,
  • A. Markopoulou

      Affiliations

    • 1st Department of Pneumonology, G. Papanikolaou Hospital, Thessaloniki, Greece
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  • P. Latsi

      Affiliations

    • 1st Department of Pneumonology, University of Athens, “SOTIRIA” Chest Diseases Hospital, Greece
    • Deceased author.
    • ,
  • V. Polychronopoulos

      Affiliations

    • 3rd Department of Pneumonology, “Sismanoglion” General District Hospital, Athens, Greece
    • ,
  • G. Birba

      Affiliations

    • Departments of Thoracic Medicine, “SOTIRIA” Chest Diseases Hospital, Athens, Greece
    • ,
  • Labrakis Ch

      Affiliations

    • Departments of Thoracic Medicine, “SOTIRIA” Chest Diseases Hospital, Athens, Greece
    • ,
  • D. Bouros

      Affiliations

    • Department of Pneumonology, Medical School, Demokritus University of Thrace and University Hospital of Alexandroupolis, Greece
    • Corresponding Author InformationCorresponding author. Head, Department of Pneumonology, Medical School University of Thrace, University Hospital, Alexandroupolis 68100, Greece. Tel./fax: +30 25510 76106.
    • On behalf of the Hellenic Interstitial Lung Diseases Group. The other members of the Group are listed in the acknowledgments section.

Received 14 August 2008 ,Accepted 2 March 2009.

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☆ Presented in part at the 15th Annual ERS Congress, Copenhagen 2005.

PII: S0954-6111(09)00072-9

doi: 10.1016/j.rmed.2009.03.001

Respiratory Medicine
Volume 103, Issue 8 , Pages 1122-1129 , August 2009

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