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Painful congestion of the lower limbs and recurrent fever

Stephan Staubach1, Martin Hug, Harald Mudra

  • 1Department of Cardiology, Pulmonology and Internal Intensive Care Medicine, Städtisches Klinikum München GmbH, Klinikum Neuperlach, Munich, Germany. stephanstaubach@gmail.com

Blood Coagulation & Fibrinolysis : an International Journal in Haemostasis and Thrombosis
|September 3, 2011
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