SIGNIFICANCE OF PHLEBOGRAPHY IN PHLEBOTHROMBOSIS

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Although visualization of the venous system is frequently referred to as venography, we believe that, since this is a hybrid word, being derived from both Latin and Greek, phlebography should be used because it has a true Greek origin: [unk],phleps,vein, and [unk]graphein,to write. Few complications in medicine and surgery are as unpredictable, treacherous and dramatically tragic as the thromboembolic phenomena. Fatal pulmonary embolism in a patient apparently convalescing uneventfully and preparing to leave the hospital is a fearsome and pathetic catastrophe. Whereas the mortality rate in surgical patients has steadily decreased since the introduction of asepsis and continued improvement in surgical technic and anesthesia as well as the more recent development of the sulfonamides, little has actually been accomplished in the control of pulmonary embolism until relatively recently. Indeed there is some statistical evidence to support the belief that the thromboembolic incidence is increasing.1That

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