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Thromb Haemost 2011; 106(02): 381-382
DOI: 10.1160/TH11-03-0191
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Massive muscle haematoma three months after starting vitamin K antagonist therapy for deep-vein thrombosis in an antithrombin deficient patient: Another case of factor IX propeptide mutation

Maximilian Jahns
1   Department of Hematology and Central Hematology Laboratory, Inselspital, Bern University Hospital and University of Bern, Bern, Switzerland
,
Dorothea Friess
1   Department of Hematology and Central Hematology Laboratory, Inselspital, Bern University Hospital and University of Bern, Bern, Switzerland
,
Franziska Demarmels Biasiutti
1   Department of Hematology and Central Hematology Laboratory, Inselspital, Bern University Hospital and University of Bern, Bern, Switzerland
,
Johanna A. Kremer Hovinga
1   Department of Hematology and Central Hematology Laboratory, Inselspital, Bern University Hospital and University of Bern, Bern, Switzerland
,
Lorenzo Alberio
1   Department of Hematology and Central Hematology Laboratory, Inselspital, Bern University Hospital and University of Bern, Bern, Switzerland
,
Johannes Oldenburg
2   Institute of Experimental Hematology and Transfusion Medicine, University Clinic Bonn, Bonn, Germany
,
Bernhard Lämmle
1   Department of Hematology and Central Hematology Laboratory, Inselspital, Bern University Hospital and University of Bern, Bern, Switzerland
,
Giuseppe Colucci
1   Department of Hematology and Central Hematology Laboratory, Inselspital, Bern University Hospital and University of Bern, Bern, Switzerland
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Received: 22 March 2011

Accepted after major revision: 12 May 2011

Publication Date:
25 November 2017 (online)

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