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. 2000 May;82(3):F173–F175. doi: 10.1136/fn.82.3.F173

Management of severe alloimmune thrombocytopenia in the newborn

W OUWEHAND, G SMITH, E RANASINGHE
PMCID: PMC1721082  PMID: 10794780

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