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Clinical relevance and practical assessment of fibrinolysis shutdown
Hunter B Moore1, Brooke A Moore1, Angela Sauaia1
1Department of Surgery, Ernest E. Moore Shock Trauma Center, Denver Health Medical Center, Denver, Colorado, USA.
ANZ Journal of Surgery
|September 20, 2019
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