Hemostasis and Thrombosis
Subtitle: Basic Principles and Clinical Practice
Contributors: Edwin W. Salzman (Editor)
Publisher: Lippincott Williams & Wilkins
Published: January 1994
Language: eng
Number of pages: 1632
ISBN-13: 9780397510597
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.