Hemostasis and Thrombosis
Subtitle: Basic Principles and Clinical Practice
Edition: 5 edition
Publisher: Lippincott Williams & Wilkins
Published: December 1, 2005
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 1822
ISBN-13: 9780781749961
Subjects: Haematology; Thrombosis; Coagulation; Medical / Nursing; Reference; Medical; Hematology; Medical / Surgery / General; Blood; Blood coagulation disorders
First sentence: Humans have evolved an intricate hemostatic system designed to maintain blood in a fluid state under physiologic conditions but primed to react to vascular injury in an explosive manner to stem blood loss by sealing the defect in the vessel wall.