The management of patients on anticoagulants prior to cutaneous surgery: case report of a thromboembolic complication, review of the literature, and evidence-based recommendations.
Khalifeh
Marwan R
MR
Baltimore, Md. From the Division of Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery, The Johns Hopkins Hospital.
Redett
Richard J
RJ
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