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Letter to the Editor: Tissue factor of endothelial origin: Just another brick in the wall?
Marco Witkowski1, Ursula Rauch1
1Charité Centrum 11, Department of Cardiology, Charité, Universitätsmedizin Berlin, Germany.
Trends in Cardiovascular Medicine
|October 23, 2016
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