The utility of screening for deep venous thrombosis in asymptomatic, non-ambulatory neurosurgical patients

Journal of Vascular Surgery

Volumn 53, Issue 5, 2011, Pages 1309-1315

  Dermody, Meghan ^a   Alessi Chinetti, Jean ^a   Iafrati, Mark D ^a   Estes, James M ^a  

^a TUFTS MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

HEPARIN; LOW MOLECULAR WEIGHT HEPARIN;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BODY MASS; CHEMOPROPHYLAXIS; COMORBIDITY; DEEP VEIN THROMBOSIS; DEMOGRAPHY; DISEASE COURSE; FEMALE; FEMORAL VEIN; FOLLOW UP; HOSPITAL DISCHARGE; HUMAN; LEG; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MEDICAL RECORD; NEUROSURGERY; POPLITEAL VEIN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; SCREENING TEST; SURGEON; THROMBOSIS PREVENTION; THROMBUS; VEIN;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ANTICOAGULANTS; ASYMPTOMATIC DISEASES; BOSTON; CHI-SQUARE DISTRIBUTION; CHILD; FEMALE; HEMORRHAGE; HUMANS; INCIDENCE; INPATIENTS; INTRAOPERATIVE CARE; LOWER EXTREMITY; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NEUROSURGICAL PROCEDURES; PREDICTIVE VALUE OF TESTS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RISK ASSESSMENT; RISK FACTORS; TIME FACTORS; ULTRASONOGRAPHY, DOPPLER, DUPLEX; VENOUS THROMBOSIS;

EID: 79955691959     PISSN: 07415214     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jvs.2010.10.115     Document Type: Article

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