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Erratum to: Identification of more objective biomarkers for Blood-Stasis syndrome diagnosis
Jiangquan Liao1,2, Yongmei Liu2, Jie Wang3
1Graduate School, Beijing University of Chinese Medicine, No.11 Beisanhuan East Road, Chaoyang District, Beijing, 100029, China.
BMC Complementary and Alternative Medicine
|November 12, 2016
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