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Bleeding Time and in vivo Platelet Adhesiveness in von Willebrand's Disease: Effect of Iontophoresis of Adenosine Diphosphate

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MEASUREMENT of the adhesiveness of platelets in vitro has yielded variable results in von Willebrand's disease1–6. Hopes of increasing the discrimination between von Willebrand's disease and normal subjects using adenosine diphosphate (ADP) in an in vitro system have not been fulfilled2,3,6.

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LESLIE, J. Bleeding Time and in vivo Platelet Adhesiveness in von Willebrand's Disease: Effect of Iontophoresis of Adenosine Diphosphate. Nature 215, 1302–1303 (1967). https://doi.org/10.1038/2151302a0

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