Respiratory Medicine
Volume 104, Issue 7 , Pages 966-971 , July 2010

Abnormalities of plethysmographic lung volumes in asthmatic children

  • Bruno Mahut

      Affiliations

    • Cabinet La Berma, 4 avenue de la Providence; 92 160 Antony, France
    • Assistance Publique-Hôpitaux de Paris; Hôpital Européen Georges Pompidou, Service de Physiologie – Clinique de la Dyspnée, France
    • Université Paris Descartes, France
    • MOSQUITO Group of Respiratory Research, Paris, France
    • ,
  • Plamen Bokov

      Affiliations

    • Assistance Publique-Hôpitaux de Paris; Hôpital Européen Georges Pompidou, Service de Physiologie – Clinique de la Dyspnée, France
    • MOSQUITO Group of Respiratory Research, Paris, France
    • ,
  • Christophe Delclaux

      Affiliations

    • Assistance Publique-Hôpitaux de Paris; Hôpital Européen Georges Pompidou, Service de Physiologie – Clinique de la Dyspnée, France
    • Université Paris Descartes, France
    • MOSQUITO Group of Respiratory Research, Paris, France
    • CIC 9201 Hôpital Européen Georges Pompidou, Paris, France
    • Corresponding Author InformationCorresponding author. Clinique de la Dyspnée, Hôpital Européen Georges Pompidou, 20, rue Leblanc, 75015 Paris, France. Tel.: +33 1 56 09 34 88.

Received 21 September 2009 ,Accepted 22 January 2010.

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PII: S0954-6111(10)00042-9

doi: 10.1016/j.rmed.2010.01.015

Respiratory Medicine
Volume 104, Issue 7 , Pages 966-971 , July 2010

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