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Venous Thrombosis is a major cause of mortality and morbidity in Western populations and in 30% of cases is associated to genetic susceptibility. Ideally, the identification of carriers of such susceptibility, known as thrombophilia, may allow for predicting the likelihood of recurrence in symptomatic patients and the risk of thrombosis in their relatives, leading to tailored plans of therapy a...
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ژورنال
عنوان ژورنال: Proceedings of the Royal Society of Medicine
سال: 1971
ISSN: 0035-9157
DOI: 10.1177/003591577106400514