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Rationale for clinical trials of coagulation: reactive drugs in hepatocellular carcinoma

Leo R Zacharski Norris Cotton Cancer Center, Dartmouth Hitchcock Medical Center, VA Medical Center, 215 North Main Street, White River Junction, Vermont 05009, USA. [email protected]
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Merten Hommann Department of General and Visceral Surgery, Research Center Lobeda Medical Faculty at the Friedrich Schiller University Jena, Erlanger Allee 101, D-07747 Jena, Germany. [email protected]
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Roland Kaufmann Department of General and Visceral Surgery, Research Center Lobeda Medical Faculty at the Friedrich Schiller University Jena, Erlanger Allee 101, D-07747 Jena, Germany. [email protected]
Pages 777-784 | Published online: 10 Jan 2014

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