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Structural Changes in the Fibrin Network of a Pretoria Family with Dysfibrinogenemia: A Scanning Electron Microscopical Study

E. Pretorius Department of Anatomy, School of Health Sciences, Medical Faculty of the University of Pretoria, Pretoria, South AfricaCorrespondence[email protected]
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S. Briedenhann Fibrinolysis Laboratory, Department of Surgery, School of Health Sciences, Medical Faculty of the University of Pretoria, Pretoria, South Africa
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J. Marx Department of Anatomy, School of Health Sciences, Medical Faculty of the University of Pretoria, Pretoria, South Africa
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R. C. Franz Fibrinolysis Laboratory, Department of Surgery, School of Health Sciences, Medical Faculty of the University of Pretoria, Pretoria, South Africa
Pages 167-176 | Received 09 Jan 2005, Accepted 28 Oct 2005, Published online: 10 Jul 2009

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Etheresia Pretorius, Hester M. Oberholzer, Wendy J. van der Spuy & Johannes H. Meiring. (2009) Macrothrombocytopenia: Investigating the Ultrastructure of Platelets and Fibrin Networks Using Scanning and Transmission Electron Microscopy. Ultrastructural Pathology 33:5, pages 216-221.
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E. Pretorius & P. Humphries. (2007) Ultrastructural Changes to Rabbit Fibrin and Platelets Due to Aspartame. Ultrastructural Pathology 31:2, pages 77-83.
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Etheresia Pretorius, Petro Bronkhorst, Sharon Briedenhann, Eureka Smit & Robert C Franz. (2009) Comparisons of the fibrin networks during pregnancy, nonpregnancy and pregnancy during dysfibrinogenaemia using the scanning electron microscope. Blood Coagulation & Fibrinolysis 20:1, pages 12-16.
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P. Humphries, E. Smit & E. Pretorius. (2008) Ultrastructural Morphology of Platelets and Fibrin Networks of Lactating and Non-Pregnant Rabbits. Anatomia, Histologia, Embryologia 37:4, pages 285-288.
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