Assessment of mean platelet volume in coronary artery disease - What does it mean?

Thrombosis Research

Volumn 120, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 11-13

  Boos, Christopher J ^a   Lip, Gregory Y H ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY DEPARTMENT OF MEDICINE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BLOOD CLOTTING; CORONARY ARTERY ATHEROSCLEROSIS; CORONARY ARTERY DISEASE; DISEASE MARKER; EDITORIAL; HEART INFARCTION; HUMAN; PERCUTANEOUS CORONARY INTERVENTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; THROMBOCYTE AGGREGATION; THROMBOCYTE FUNCTION; THROMBOCYTE VOLUME;

BLOOD PLATELETS; CELL SIZE; CLINICAL TRIALS; CORONARY ARTERIOSCLEROSIS; HUMANS;

EID: 34247139333     PISSN: 00493848     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.thromres.2006.09.002     Document Type: Editorial

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