Front. Med. Frontiers in Medicine Front. Med. 2296-858X Frontiers Media S.A. 10.3389/fmed.2025.1654729 Medicine Correction Correction: Serum concentrations of Krebs von den Lungen-6 as prognostic biomarker in patients with silicosis Smǎrǎndescu Raluca-Andreea 1 Oțelea Marina-Ruxandra 1 2 Panaitescu Eugenia 3 * Jitka Andrä 4 Bonella Francesco 4 † Rașcu Agripina 1 2 † 1Carol Davila University of Medicine and Pharmacy, Clinical Department 5, Internal Medicine, Bucharest, Romania 2Department of Occupational Medicine, Colentina Clinical Hospital, Bucharest, Romania 3Carol Davila University of Medicine and Pharmacy, Department 3 - Complementary Sciences, Bucharest, Romania 4Center for Interstitial and Rare Lung Disease, Department of Pneumology, Ruhrlandklinik University Hospital, University of Duisburg-Essen, Essen, Germany

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 *Correspondence: Eugenia Panaitescu eugenia.panaitescu@umfcd.ro

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 A Correction on Serum concentrations of Krebs von den Lungen-6 as prognostic biomarker in patients with silicosis by Smǎrǎndescu, R.-A., Otelea, M.-R., Panaitescu, E., Jitka, A., Bonella, F., and Rașcu, A. (2025) Front. Med. 12:1579209. doi: 10.3389/fmed.2025.1579209 KL-6 silicosis occupational fibrosis crystalline silica biomarker disease progression Universitatea de Medicină ş Farmacie “Carol Davila” Bucureştihttps://doi.org/10.13039/501100007700 section-at-acceptance Pulmonary Medicine

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