Mean platelet volume: A quick, easy determinant of thrombotic risk?

Journal of Thrombosis and Haemostasis

Volumn 8, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 146-147

  Machin, S J ^a   Briggs, C ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON HOSPITALS   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACUTE HEART INFARCTION; CARDIOVASCULAR RISK; DISEASE MARKER; GENETIC RISK; GENETIC SUSCEPTIBILITY; HUMAN; NOTE; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PREDICTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROGNOSIS; RESTENOSIS; SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE POLYMORPHISM; THROMBOCYTE COUNT; THROMBOCYTE VOLUME; THROMBOSIS; TRANSLUMINAL CORONARY ANGIOPLASTY; VENOUS THROMBOEMBOLISM;

BLOOD PLATELETS; CELL SIZE; HEART DISEASES; HUMANS; PLATELET COUNT; PLATELET FUNCTION TESTS; PREDICTIVE VALUE OF TESTS; RISK ASSESSMENT; RISK FACTORS; TIME FACTORS; VENOUS THROMBOEMBOLISM;

EID: 73049117125     PISSN: 15387933     EISSN: 15387836     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1538-7836.2009.03673.x     Document Type: Note

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