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Thromb Haemost 1999; 82(02): 641-648
DOI: 10.1055/s-0037-1615891
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Pregnancy Loss in the Antiphospholipid Syndrome

Michael D. Lockshin
1   Barbara Volcker Center for Women and Rheumatic Disease, Hospital for Special Surgery and Joan and Sanford Weill College of Medicine of Cornell University, New York, NY, USA
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