Upsetting the balance [4]

Indian Journal of Medical Research

Volumn 125, Issue 2, 2007, Pages 186-187

  Stein, Sherman C ^a   Halpern, Casey ^a   Reilly, Patrick M ^a  

^a HOSPITAL OF THE UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTIFIBRINOLYTIC AGENT; THROMBOPLASTIN;

BLEEDING; BLOOD CLOTTING DISORDER; BLOOD TRANSFUSION; BRAIN HEMORRHAGE; BRAIN ISCHEMIA; CEREBROVASCULAR ACCIDENT; CLINICAL TRIAL; DISSEMINATED INTRAVASCULAR CLOTTING; ELECTIVE SURGERY; EVIDENCE BASED MEDICINE; HEART INFARCTION; HOMEOSTASIS; HUMAN; INDIA; LETTER; LUNG EMBOLISM; NEUROIMAGING; PATIENT MONITORING; PEER REVIEW; RISK BENEFIT ANALYSIS; TRAUMATIC BRAIN INJURY; TRAUMATOLOGY; BLOOD; BRAIN INJURY; METABOLISM; NOTE; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY;

ANTIFIBRINOLYTIC AGENTS; BRAIN INJURIES; DISSEMINATED INTRAVASCULAR COAGULATION; HEMORRHAGE; HUMANS; THROMBOPLASTIN;

EID: 34147175133     PISSN: 09715916     EISSN: 09715916     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Letter

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