The value of mechanical methods of preventing postoperative calf vein thrombosis

1 March 1974

journal article
research article
Published by Oxford University Press (OUP) in British Journal of Surgery

Vol. 61 (3), 219-223
https://doi.org/10.1002/bjs.1800610312

Abstract

The value of elevation of the leg and elastic stockings for the prevention of deep vein thrombosis has been studied in two groups of patients using the fibrinogen uptake test for diagnosis. Neither method appears to haw any effect on the incidence of thrombosis.

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