Rapid Blood Test for the Exclusion of Venous Thromboembolism in Symptomatic Outpatients

Thromb Haemost 1997; 77(05): 1042-1043
DOI: 10.1055/s-0038-1656106

Letter to the Editor

Schattauer GmbH Stuttgart

Jean-Noël Fiessinger

The Department of Vascular Medicine, Centre Claude Bernard de Recherche sur les Maladies Vasculaires, Hôpital Broussais, Paris, France

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Emmanuel Héron

The Department of Vascular Medicine, Centre Claude Bernard de Recherche sur les Maladies Vasculaires, Hôpital Broussais, Paris, France

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Frédéric Jacq

The Department of Vascular Medicine, Centre Claude Bernard de Recherche sur les Maladies Vasculaires, Hôpital Broussais, Paris, France

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Arnaud Rance

The Department of Vascular Medicine, Centre Claude Bernard de Recherche sur les Maladies Vasculaires, Hôpital Broussais, Paris, France

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Joseph Emmerich

The Department of Vascular Medicine, Centre Claude Bernard de Recherche sur les Maladies Vasculaires, Hôpital Broussais, Paris, France

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