Relationship between serum vitamin D levels and lower airway malacia in children undergoing fiberoptic bronchoscopy

D. Snijders, C. Serena, S. Quartesan, I. Bertozzi, I. Kozuh, F. Lunardi, A. Barbato (Padova, Italy)

Source: Annual Congress 2013 –Paediatric respiratory epidemiology: new understandings of lung function, disorders of prematurity and chronic airway diseases
Disease area: Paediatric lung diseases

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