Routine duplex ultrasound screening after TKA is not necessary

Clinical Orthopaedics and Related Research

Volumn 452, Issue , 2006, Pages 171-174

  Iorio, Richard ^a   Dhupar, Scott ^a   Healy, William L ^a   Wong, Eric ^a  

^a LAHEY HOSPITAL AND MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACETYLSALICYLIC ACID; WARFARIN; ANTICOAGULANT AGENT;

CHEMOPROPHYLAXIS; CONFERENCE PAPER; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEEP VEIN THROMBOSIS; FOLLOW UP; GASTROINTESTINAL HEMORRHAGE; HEMATOMA; HOSPITAL DISCHARGE; HUMAN; INFECTIOUS ARTHRITIS; INTERNATIONAL NORMALIZED RATIO; INTESTINE; LUNG EMBOLISM; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; POSTOPERATIVE PERIOD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTHROMBIN TIME; RELIABILITY; REOPERATION; SCREENING; SYMPTOMATOLOGY; TOTAL KNEE REPLACEMENT; TREATMENT DURATION; ULTRASOUND; UPPER GASTROINTESTINAL TRACT; WOUND COMPLICATION; ARTICLE; DOPPLER ECHOGRAPHY; ECHOGRAPHY; KNEE ARTHROPLASTY; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; VEIN THROMBOSIS;

ANTICOAGULANTS; ARTHROPLASTY, REPLACEMENT, KNEE; HUMANS; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; ULTRASONOGRAPHY, DOPPLER, DUPLEX; VENOUS THROMBOSIS; WARFARIN;

EID: 33750614593     PISSN: 0009921X     EISSN: 15281132     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/01.blo.0000238804.79788.12     Document Type: Conference Paper

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