A Rebuttal: Withholding Anticoagulation in Patients with Suspected Pulmonary Embolism and a Low Probability Ventilation Perfusion Scan: An Unacceptable Risk

Thromb Haemost 2002; 88(04): 702
DOI: 10.1055/s-0037-1613287

Letters to the Editor

Schattauer GmbH

Arnaud Perrier

¹Medical Clinics 1 and 2, Department of Internal Medicine, Geneva University Hospital, Geneva, Switzerland

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Henri Bounameaux

²Division of Angiology and Haemostasis, Department of Internal Medicine, Geneva University Hospital, Geneva, Switzerland

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