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Letters to the Editor

The challenge of myeloma-related thromboembolic disease: can thrombin generation assay help physicians to better predict the thromboembolic risk and personalize anti-thrombotic prophylaxis?

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Pages 2572-2575 | Received 15 Jan 2019, Accepted 16 Feb 2019, Published online: 03 Apr 2019

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