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Milestones and perspectives in coagulation and hemostasis.
Seminars in thrombosis and hemostasis - 1 Feb 2009
Lippi Giuseppe, Favaloro Emmanuel J, Franchini Massimo, Guidi Gian Cesare
Abstract excerpt
Hemostasis is traditionally defined as the physiologic process whereby bleeding is antagonized and possibly stopped to minimize blood loss. The first medical description of the clinical and inherited features of hemostasis can be dated back more than 1000 years, when Abu al-Qasim Khalaf ibn 'Abbas al-Andalusi al-Zahrawi' medical treatise provided some initial insights into this puzzling process. Since then,...
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