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Cone beam CT augmented fluoroscopy allows safe and efficient diagnosis of a difficult lung nodule

Detection of small peripheral lung nodules is constantly increasing with the development of low dose computed tomography lung cancer screening programs. A tissue diagnosis is often required to confirm malignit...

Roberto Piro, Matteo Fontana, Eleonora Casalini, Sofia Taddei… in BMC Pulmonary Medicine (2021)

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Lung "holes" after cryobiopsy: a case report

Transbronchial lung cryobiopsy is a safe technique increasingly used in the study of lung diseases. Until now, only a case of pneumatocele was described but this interesting condition is probably underestimate...

Roberto Piro, Sofia Taddei, Matteo Fontana, Chiara Scelfo… in BMC Pulmonary Medicine (2021)

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An uncommon cause of hemoptysis: aortobronchial fistula

Hemoptysis is a frequent sign of respiratory and non-respiratory diseases. While in most cases the underlying cause is rapidly identified, sometimes the real etiology might be misdiagnosed with dramatic delay ...

Matteo Fontana, Roberto Tonelli, Filippo Gozzi… in Multidisciplinary Respiratory Medicine (2018)

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Pancreatic stone protein as a novel marker for neonatal sepsis

Early-onset sepsis (EOS) is one of the main causes for the admission of newborns to the neonatal intensive care unit. However, traditional infection markers are poor diagnostic markers of EOS. Pancreatic stone...

Luregn J. Schlapbach, Rolf Graf, Andreas Woerner, Matteo Fontana… in Intensive Care Medicine (2013)

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Comment on “Adult ICU ventilators to provide neonatal ventilation: a lung simulator study”

Matteo Fontana, Antoine Payot, Sylvain Morneau, Philippe Jouvet in Intensive Care Medicine (2009)