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Infection and venous thrombosis

Joseph Emmerich1

  • 1Service de Médecine Vasculaire et HTA, Centre Claude Bernard de recherche sur les maladies vasculaires, INSERM U428, University Paris 5, Paris, France. joseph.emmerich@egp.ap-hop-paris.fr

Pathophysiology of Haemostasis and Thrombosis
|September 19, 2003
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