Straight Back Syndrome and Respiratory Failure

JMAJ, April 2006 — Vol. 49, No. 4 *1 Department of Clinical Laboratory Medicine, Graduate School of Biomedical Science, Hiroshima University, Hiroshima Correspondence to: Masayuki Kambe MD, PhD, Department of Clinical Laboratory Medicine, Graduate School of Biomedical Science, Hiroshima University, 1-2-3 Kasumi, Minami-ku, Hiroshima-shi, Hiroshima 734-8551, Japan. Tel: 81-82-257-5540, Fax: 81-82-257-5554, E-mail:mkambe@hiroshima-u.ac.jp Clinical Topics in Japan