Editorial: Testing for platelet function: Do we diagnose inherited disorders appropriately?

Blood Coagulation and Fibrinolysis

Volumn 20, Issue 7, 2009, Pages 487-

  Streif, Werner ^a  

^a INNSBRUCK MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (Austria)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CLINICAL PRACTICE; EDITORIAL; HEMOSTASIS; HUMAN; PRACTICE GUIDELINE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SCREENING TEST; THROMBOCYTE DYSFUNCTION; THROMBOCYTE FUNCTION; VON WILLEBRAND DISEASE; BLOOD CLOTTING DISORDER; BLOOD CLOTTING PARAMETERS; GENETICS; PREDICTION AND FORECASTING; STANDARD; THROMBOCYTE DISORDER;

BLOOD COAGULATION DISORDERS, INHERITED; BLOOD PLATELET DISORDERS; HUMANS; PLATELET FUNCTION TESTS; PREDICTIVE VALUE OF TESTS;

EID: 70349789691     PISSN: 09575235     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/MBC.0b013e32832c87f1     Document Type: Editorial

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