Deep venous thrombosis after general surgical operations at a university hospital: Two-year data from the ACS NSQIP

Archives of Surgery

Volumn 146, Issue 12, 2011, Pages 1424-1427

  Smith, Brian R ^a   Diniz, Sidney ^a   Stamos, Michael ^a   Nguyen, Ninh T ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTICOAGULANT AGENT;

ADULT; ARTICLE; CATHETER THROMBOSIS; CLINICAL ARTICLE; DEEP VEIN THROMBOSIS; FEMALE; GENERAL SURGERY; HUMAN; KIDNEY FAILURE; LEG THROMBOSIS; LUNG EMBOLISM; MALE; MORTALITY; PNEUMONIA; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; SEPSIS; SURGICAL INFECTION; UPPER EXTREMITY DEEP VEIN THROMBOSIS;

COLON; COMORBIDITY; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; ESOPHAGEAL DISEASES; FEMALE; HOSPITALS, UNIVERSITY; HUMANS; INCIDENCE; INTESTINAL DISEASES; MALE; MASS SCREENING; MIDDLE AGED; PANCREATIC DISEASES; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; QUALITY IMPROVEMENT; RECTUM; STOMACH DISEASES; SURGICAL PROCEDURES, OPERATIVE; ULTRASONOGRAPHY, DOPPLER, DUPLEX; VENOUS THROMBOSIS;

EID: 84555195233     PISSN: 00040010     EISSN: 15383644     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1001/archsurg.2011.204     Document Type: Article

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