**LUNG DISEASES – SELECTED STATE OF THE ART REVIEWS**

Edited by **Elvis Malcolm Irusen**

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http://dx.doi.org/10.5772/1475 Edited by Elvis Malcolm Irusen

#### **Contributors**

Christian Peiser, Yuki Sumi, Hiroyuki Sakashita, Naohiko Inase, Qi-Quan Zhou, Yongjun Luo, Martin Fronius, Kazuya Shinmura, Haruhiko Sugimura, Cristian Rapicetta, Sara Tenconi, Massimiliano Paci, Tommaso Ricchetti, Sally Maramotti, Erkan Topkan, Cem Parlak, Jiucun Wang, Zhenhong Zhao, Jibin Xu, Yang Bao, Xiaotian Wang, Lei Wang, Li Jin, Junjie Wu, Jun Xie, Zhiyun Xu, Katsuhiko Naoki, Kenzo Soejima, Takashi Sato, Shinnosuke Ikemura, Hideki Terai, Ryosuke Satomi, Sohei Nakayama, Satoshi Yoda, Koichiro Asano, Alexander Verin, Joyce Gonzales, Luis Antón Aparicio, Vanessa Medina Villaamil, Guadalupe Aparicio Gallego, Ana Capdevila Puerta, Enrique Grande Pulido, Lynne Murray, Cory Hogaboam, Mark Davies, Renata Kalicka, Krzysztof Kuziemski, Pankaj Taneja, Kazushi Inoue, Robert Kendig, Dejan Maglic, Sinan Zhu, Elizabeth Fry, Silvia Giono-Cerezo, Guadalupe Estrada-Gutierrez, José Antonio Rivera-Tapia, Antonio Yáñez, Francisco Javier Díaz-García, Ynuk Bossé, Yohan Bossé, Peter D Paré, Tracey Bonfield, Jean-Claude Lavoie, Ibrahim Mohamed, Ayman M. Noreddin, Walid Elkhatib, Ehab Noreddin, Atef Shibl, Ghada Sawy, Aleksandra Topic, Dragica Radojkovic, Arpad Pereszlenyi, Luz Elena Cano, Damaris Lopera, Tonny Naranjo, Angela Restrepo, Angel Gonzalez, Nlandu Roger Roger Ngatu, Narufumi Suganuma, Jean-Marie Ntumba Kayembe, Benjamin Longo-Mbenza, Elena Karnaukhova, Ki-Hyun Seo, Ho-Sung Lee, Ju-Ock Na, Jae-Sung Choi, Yong-Hoon Kim, Sung-Shick Jou, Mi-Hye Oh, Lirios Sacristan Bou, Francisco Peña Blas, Tsu Yeh, Shou-Yien Wu, Sachin Gupta, Chung-Ming Chen, Marthe Paats, Peter Van Hal, Carla Baan, Henk Hoogsteden, Rudi Hendriks, Menno Van Der Eerden, Pilar Morales, María Santos, Ana Gil-Brusola, Matthew Thomas Hardison, J. Edwin Blalock, Elvis Malcolm Irusen

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