Anticoagulant-related skin reactions

Expert Opinion on Drug Safety

Volumn 1, Issue 3, 2002, Pages 287-294

  Jorg I ^a   Fenyvesi, T ^a   Harenberg, J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HEIDELBERG   (Germany)

Author keywords

coumarin; fondaparinux; heparin; hirudin; skin reactions; ximelagatran

Indexed keywords

ANTICOAGULANT AGENT; COUMARIN DERIVATIVE; HIRUDIN DERIVATIVE; LOW MOLECULAR WEIGHT HEPARIN;

CHEMICALLY INDUCED DISORDER; EXPERT WITNESS; FEMALE; HUMAN; MIDDLE AGED; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; REVIEW; SKIN DISEASE;

ANTICOAGULANTS; COUMARINS; EXPERT TESTIMONY; FEMALE; HEPARIN, LOW-MOLECULAR-WEIGHT; HIRUDINS; HUMANS; MIDDLE AGED; SKIN DISEASES;

EID: 19244368905     PISSN: 14740338     EISSN: 1744764X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1517/14740338.1.3.287     Document Type: Review

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