Heat-inducible turbidity precipitates in plasma samples of livedo reticularis with summer ulceration: Hypothesis for abnormal coagulation in summer

Thromb Haemost 2005; 94(01): 222-223
DOI: 10.1055/s-0037-1614311

Letters to the Editor

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Hiroyuki Murota

¹Department of Dermatology, Course of Molecular Medicine Graduate School of Medicine Osaka University, Osaka

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Eiji Muroi

²Department of Dermatology, School of Medicine Nagasaki University, Nagasaki

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Youichirou Hamasaki

²Department of Dermatology, School of Medicine Nagasaki University, Nagasaki

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Kazuhiro Shimizu

²Department of Dermatology, School of Medicine Nagasaki University, Nagasaki

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Mikio Masuzawa

³Department of Dermatology School of Medicine, Kitasato University, Tokyo, Japan

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Ichiro Katayama

¹Department of Dermatology, Course of Molecular Medicine Graduate School of Medicine Osaka University, Osaka

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