The European Concerted Action on Anticoagulation (ECAA) evaluation of a set of lyophilized normal plasmas to establish the normal prothrombin time for coagulometer systems

Thrombosis and Haemostasis

Volumn 79, Issue 1, 1998, Pages 122-128

  Poller, L ^a   Barrowcliffe, T W ^b   Van Den Besselaar, A M H P ^c   Jespersen, J ^d   Tripodi, A ^e   Houghton, D ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MANCHESTER   (United Kingdom)

^b NATIONAL INSTITUTE FOR BIOLOGICAL STANDARDS AND CONTROL   (United Kingdom)

^c LEIDEN UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

^d Centralsygehuset   (Denmark)

^e FONDAZIONE IRCCS CA GRANDA OSPEDALE MAGGIORE POLICLINICO   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

PROTHROMBIN; THROMBOPLASTIN;

ANTICOAGULATION; ARTICLE; HUMAN; NORMAL HUMAN; PLASMA; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTHROMBIN TIME;

EID: 0031984155     PISSN: 03406245     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1055/s-0037-1614246     Document Type: Article

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