European Journal of Internal Medicine
Volume 21, Issue 4 , Pages 273-277 , August 2010

No early signs of atherosclerotic alterations in carriers of inherited thrombophilia

Received 27 December 2009 ,Revised 5 April 2010 ,Accepted 25 April 2010.

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☆ No grant support has been received for this study. All the authors declare that they do not have conflict of interest.

PII: S0953-6205(10)00084-1

doi: 10.1016/j.ejim.2010.04.008

European Journal of Internal Medicine
Volume 21, Issue 4 , Pages 273-277 , August 2010

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