Secondary Prophylaxis with Low Molecular Weight Heparin: The Dose?

Thromb Haemost 2001; 86(04): 1129
DOI: 10.1055/s-0037-1616552

Letters to the Editor

Schattauer GmbH

McDonald K. Horne

¹Hematology Service, Department of Laboratory Medicine, Warren G. Magnuson Clinical Center, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, MD, USA

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