Pulmonary Medicine

Volume 2011 (2011), Article ID 515608, 2 pages

doi:10.1155/2011/515608

Erratum

Erratum to “Factors Influencing Oxidative Imbalance in Pulmonary Fibrosis: An Immunohistochemical Study”

S. Inghilleri,¹ P. Morbini,² I. Campo,¹ M. Zorzetto,¹ T. Oggionni,¹ E. Pozzi,¹ and M. Luisetti¹

¹Respiratory Disease, IRCCS Policlinico San Matteo Foundation, University of Pavia, Pavia, Italy

²Department of Pathology, IRCCS Policlinico San Matteo Foundation, University of Pavia, Pavia, Italy

Received 8 June 2011; Accepted 9 June 2011

Copyright © 2011 S. Inghilleri et al. This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.

The authors of the paper would like to apologize for the following errors contained in the original paper.

1. The exact Figure 1 in the original paper has to be corrected as Figure 1 in this paper.

Figure 1

2. References in the original paper have to be corrected by adding the following:

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