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Diagnosis of underlying mechanisms of diffuse microvascular bleeding allows targeted therapy

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  28 January 2005

D. Fries
Affiliation:
Department of Anaesthesiology and Critical Care Medicine, Leopold-Franzens University, Innsbruck, Austria
P. Innerhofer
Affiliation:
Department of Anaesthesiology and Critical Care Medicine, Leopold-Franzens University, Innsbruck, Austria
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2004 European Society of Anaesthesiology

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