Diagnostic Evaluation of Platelet Disorders: The Past, the Present, and the Future

Catherine P.M Hayward; Emmanuel J Favaloro

doi:10.1055/s-0029-1220320

Seminars in Thrombosis and Hemostasis, Table of Contents

Semin Thromb Hemost 2009; 35(2): 127-130
DOI: 10.1055/s-0029-1220320

PREFACE

Diagnostic Evaluation of Platelet Disorders: The Past, the Present, and the Future

Catherine P.M Hayward¹ ^, ² , Emmanuel J. Favaloro³

¹Departments of Medicine and Pathology and Molecular Medicine, McMaster University, Hamilton, Ontario, Canada
²The Hamilton Regional Laboratory Medicine Program, Hamilton, Ontario, Canada
³Department of Haematology, Institute of Clinical Pathology and Medical Research (ICPMR), Westmead Hospital, NSW, Australia

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