COAT Platelets Under Alarm

Thromb Haemost 2021; 121(10): 1267
DOI: 10.1055/s-0041-1735190

T&H insights

Thomas Thiele

¹Abteilung Transfusionsmedizin, Institut für Immunologie und Transfusionsmedizin, Universitätsmedizin Greifswald, Greifswald, Germany

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Stefan Handtke

¹Abteilung Transfusionsmedizin, Institut für Immunologie und Transfusionsmedizin, Universitätsmedizin Greifswald, Greifswald, Germany

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