Pitfalls in the measurement of serum VEGF in children with congenital heart disease [7] (multiple letters)

Annals of Thoracic Surgery

Volumn 78, Issue 5, 2004, Pages 1884-1885

  Arena, Elisa ^a   Ferrero, Simone ^b   Ootaki, Yoshio ^c   Yamaguchi, Masahiro ^d   Yoshimura, Naoki ^d   Oka, Shigeteru ^d   Yoshida, Masahiro ^d   Hasegawa, Tomomi ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GENOA   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF GENOA   (Italy)

^c 9500 Euclid AveND3 100   (United States)

^d KOBE CHILDREN S HOSPITAL   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

VASCULOTROPIN;

ANGIOGENESIS; ASPLENIA; BLOOD CLOTTING; BLOOD SAMPLING; CONCENTRATION (PARAMETERS); CONGENITAL HEART DISEASE; CYANOTIC HEART DISEASE; HUMAN; LETTER; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN BLOOD LEVEL; THROMBOCYTE; THROMBOCYTE ACTIVATION; THROMBOCYTE COUNT; THROMBOCYTOSIS; VALIDATION PROCESS;

EID: 19644369551     PISSN: 00034975     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.athoracsur.2003.09.138     Document Type: Letter

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