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Volume 30, Issue 2 , Pages 165-168 , March 2004

Virtual bronchoscopy for diagnosis of inhalation injury in burnt patients

Madhuri A Gore
- Department of General Surgery, Lokmanya Tilak Municipal Medical College and General Hospital, Sion, Mumbai 400022, India
- Corresponding author. Present address: ‘Shreyas’ 20, Udayagiri, V.N. Purav Marg, Deonar, Mumbai 400088, India. Tel.: +91-22-25554770(R)/+91-22-24042095(O).
Anagha R Joshi
- Department of Radiology, Lokmanya Tilak Municipal Medical College and General Hospital, Sion, Mumbai 400022, India
Ganesh Nagarajan
- Department of General Surgery, Lokmanya Tilak Municipal Medical College and General Hospital, Sion, Mumbai 400022, India
Sandhya P Iyer
- Department of General Surgery, Lokmanya Tilak Municipal Medical College and General Hospital, Sion, Mumbai 400022, India
Trupti Kulkarni
- Department of General Surgery, Lokmanya Tilak Municipal Medical College and General Hospital, Sion, Mumbai 400022, India
Ashish Khandelwal
- Department of Radiology, Lokmanya Tilak Municipal Medical College and General Hospital, Sion, Mumbai 400022, India

,Accepted 5 September 2003.

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