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Influence of vitamin K antagonist treatment on activated partial thromboplastin time

  • Sylvie M.N. Mulliez , Julie Van den Bogaert and Katrien M.J. Devreese EMAIL logo

Corresponding author: Katrien M.J. Devreese, Coagulation Laboratory, Laboratory for Clinical Biology Ghent University Hospital, De Pintelaan, 185 (2P8), 9000 Gent, Belgium, Phone: +32 9 3326567, Fax: +32 9 3324985, E-mail:

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Supplemental Material

The online version of this article (DOI: 10.1515/cclm-2014-0688) offers supplementary material, available to authorized users.


Received: 2014-7-4
Accepted: 2014-7-21
Published Online: 2014-8-19
Published in Print: 2015-2-1

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