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Effects of cigarette smoking on morphological features of platelets in healthy men

Farahnaz Ghahremanfard, Vahid Semnani, Raheb Ghorbani, Farhad Malek, Ali Behzadfar and Mehrdad Zahmatkesh
Saudi Medical Journal July 2015, 36 (7) 847-850; DOI: https://doi.org/10.15537/smj.2015.7.11026
Farahnaz Ghahremanfard
From the Internal Medicine Department (Ghahremanfard, Malek, Behzadfar, Zahmatkesh), the Pathology Department (Semnani), the Research Center for Social Determinants of Health (Ghorbani), Semnan University of Medical Sciences, Semnan, Iran
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Vahid Semnani
From the Internal Medicine Department (Ghahremanfard, Malek, Behzadfar, Zahmatkesh), the Pathology Department (Semnani), the Research Center for Social Determinants of Health (Ghorbani), Semnan University of Medical Sciences, Semnan, Iran
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Raheb Ghorbani
From the Internal Medicine Department (Ghahremanfard, Malek, Behzadfar, Zahmatkesh), the Pathology Department (Semnani), the Research Center for Social Determinants of Health (Ghorbani), Semnan University of Medical Sciences, Semnan, Iran
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Farhad Malek
From the Internal Medicine Department (Ghahremanfard, Malek, Behzadfar, Zahmatkesh), the Pathology Department (Semnani), the Research Center for Social Determinants of Health (Ghorbani), Semnan University of Medical Sciences, Semnan, Iran
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Ali Behzadfar
From the Internal Medicine Department (Ghahremanfard, Malek, Behzadfar, Zahmatkesh), the Pathology Department (Semnani), the Research Center for Social Determinants of Health (Ghorbani), Semnan University of Medical Sciences, Semnan, Iran
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Mehrdad Zahmatkesh
From the Internal Medicine Department (Ghahremanfard, Malek, Behzadfar, Zahmatkesh), the Pathology Department (Semnani), the Research Center for Social Determinants of Health (Ghorbani), Semnan University of Medical Sciences, Semnan, Iran
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