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SUMMARY

REVIEWS

Ioana Ungurean, Voicu Tudorache, Maria Mogoseanu, Monica Marc

The radioimagistic techniques‘ contribution to understan ding the pathophysiological mechanisms of chronic obstructive pulmonary diseases (COPD). Part II

• Florin Mihaltan, Oana Deleanu, Ruxandra Ulmeanu

Bariatric surgery and sleep apnea syndrome

• Ciprian Bolca, Matias Losano Brontos, Massimo Conti, Eric Frechette

Video-Assisted thoracoscopic lobectomy - the treatment of choice for stage I NSCLC

ORIGINAL PAPERS

• Adriana Parau, Daniela Homorodean, Andrea Jodal, Dumitru Carstina

Respiratory features of Aspergillus infection in eight years of pulmonology practice

• Ioana Cristina Buzoianu, Oana Cristina Arghir, E. Circo

Smoking and autoimmune thyroid diseases

CLINICAL CASES

• Boloursaz MR, Khalilzadeh S, Abbasi Dezfoli A, Kahkoee Sh, Karimi Sh, Abbaszadeh M, Masjedi MR, Velayati AA

Inflammatory myofibroblastic tumor of the trachea

• Oana Deleanu, Natalia Patrascu, Ana-Maria Nebunoiu, V. Vintila, Ruxandra Ulmeanu, Florin Mihaltan

Left lung agenesis lately diagnosed

ARTICLE FROM EUROPEAN RESPIRATORY JOURNAL

• N. Galie, M. Palazzini, A. Manes

Pulmonary hypertension and pulmonary arterial hypertension: a clarification is needed