Mean platelet volume in patients with coronary artery ectasia

Blood Coagulation and Fibrinolysis

Volumn 20, Issue 5, 2009, Pages 321-324

  Varol, Ercan ^a,b   Akcay, Selahattin ^a   Ozaydin, Mehmet ^a   Erdogan, Dogan ^a   Dogan, Abdullah ^a  

^a SULEYMAN DEMIREL UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

^b NONE   (Turkey)

Author keywords

Coronary artery ectasia; Mean platelet volume; Platelet function

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORONARY ARTERY ATHEROSCLEROSIS; CORONARY ARTERY ECTASIA; FEMALE; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; THROMBOCYTE COUNT; THROMBOCYTE FUNCTION; THROMBOCYTE VOLUME;

AGED; BLOOD PLATELETS; CELL SIZE; CORONARY ANGIOGRAPHY; CORONARY ARTERY DISEASE; DILATATION, PATHOLOGIC; FEMALE; HUMANS; HYPERTENSION; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PLATELET ACTIVATION; PLATELET COUNT; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SINGLE-BLIND METHOD;

EID: 68149131504     PISSN: 09575235     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/MBC.0b013e3283255ffa     Document Type: Article

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