Continuing warfarin during cutaneous surgery

Surgeon

Volumn 6, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 148-150

  Sugden, Paul ^a,b   Siddiqui, H ^a  

^a JAMES COOK UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

^b NONE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Anticoagulant; Cutaneous surgery; Warfarin

Indexed keywords

EID: 45249111374     PISSN: 1479666X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S1479-666X(08)80110-2     Document Type: Article

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