Reliability of Platelet Function Tests and Drug Monitoring

Semin Thromb Hemost 2005; 31(4): 367-369
DOI: 10.1055/s-2005-916669

PREFACE

Walter-Michael Halbmayer¹ , Götz Nowak² , Ernst Wenzel³

¹Hospital Lainz, Institute of Laboratory Diagnostics, Vienna, Austria
²Friedrich Schiller University Jena, Medical Faculty, Research Group, “Pharmacological Haemostaseology”, Jena, Germany
³University of Saarland, University Hospital, Homburg/Saar, Germany

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