Defective Fibrinolytic and Prostacyclin-Like Activity in Human Atheromatous Plaques

Thromb Haemost 1978; 39(02): 535-536
DOI: 10.1055/s-0038-1646719

Letters to the Editor

Schattauer GmbH Stuttgart

V D’Angelo

Department of Neurosurgery, Ca.-Granda Hospital, Milan, Italy

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S Villa

Department of Neurosurgery, Ca.-Granda Hospital, Milan, Italy

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M Mysliwiec

On leave of absence from the Haematology Clinic, Institute of Internal Diseases, Medical School, Bialystok, Poland

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M B Donati

Department of Neurosurgery, Ca.-Granda Hospital, Milan, Italy

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G de Gaetano

Istituto di Ricerche Farmacologiche ‘Mario Negri’, Via Eritrea, 62, 20157-Milan, Italy

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