Respiratory Medicine
Volume 104, Issue 7 , Pages 925-933 , July 2010

Do obstructive and restrictive lung diseases share common underlying mechanisms of breathlessness?

  • Giorgio Scano

      Affiliations

    • Department of Internal Medicine, Section of Clinical Immunology and Respiratory Medicine, University of Florence, Italy
    • Fondazione Don C. Gnocchi, Section of Respiratory Rehabilitation, Pozzolatico, Firenze, Italy
    • Corresponding Author InformationCorresponding author at: Department of Internal Medicine, Section of Clinical Immunology and Respiratory Disease, University of Florence, Viale Morgagni 87, 50134 Careggi, Firenze, Italy. Tel.: +39 055 42 96 414; fax: +39 055 41 78 92.
    • ,
  • Giulia Innocenti-Bruni

      Affiliations

    • Fondazione Don C. Gnocchi, Section of Respiratory Rehabilitation, Pozzolatico, Firenze, Italy
    • ,
  • Loredana Stendardi

      Affiliations

    • Fondazione Don C. Gnocchi, Section of Respiratory Rehabilitation, Pozzolatico, Firenze, Italy

Received 4 September 2009 ,Accepted 22 February 2010.

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