Serum vascular endothelial growth factor-D as a diagnostic and therapeutic biomarker for lymphangioleiomyomatosis

• Masaki Hirose,

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Validation, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Clinical Research Center, National Hospital Organization Kinki-Chuo Chest Medical Center, Sakai, Osaka, Japan

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• Akiko Matsumuro,

  Roles Data curation

  Affiliation Clinical Research Center, National Hospital Organization Kinki-Chuo Chest Medical Center, Sakai, Osaka, Japan

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• Toru Arai,

  Roles Data curation

  Affiliation Clinical Research Center, National Hospital Organization Kinki-Chuo Chest Medical Center, Sakai, Osaka, Japan

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• Chikatoshi Sugimoto,

  Roles Data curation

  Affiliation Clinical Research Center, National Hospital Organization Kinki-Chuo Chest Medical Center, Sakai, Osaka, Japan

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• Masanori Akira,

  Roles Data curation

  Affiliation Department of Radiology, National Hospital Organization Kinki-Chuo Chest Medical Center, Sakai, Osaka, Japan

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• Masanori Kitaichi,

  Roles Data curation, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Pathology, National Hospital Organization Minami Wakayama Medical Center, Tanabe, Wakayama, Japan

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• Lisa R. Young,

  Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Vanderbilt University Medical Center, Nashville, Tennessee, United States of America

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• Francis X. McCormack,

  Roles Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation University of Cincinnati College of Medicine, Cincinnati, Ohio, United States of America

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• Yoshikazu Inoue

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Supervision, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  * E-mail: inoue.yoshikazu.nt@mail.hosp.go.jp

  Affiliation Clinical Research Center, National Hospital Organization Kinki-Chuo Chest Medical Center, Sakai, Osaka, Japan

  http://orcid.org/0000-0003-3994-874X

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