The Early Diagnosis of Phlebothrombosis

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NOTHING so captivates the medical mind as the prevention of catastrophe by a simple method. Thus may be explained the rapidly increasing popularity of proximal ligation of thrombosed veins for the prevention of pulmonary embolism. Indeed, there must be few surgeons, who have not witnessed the shockingly sudden transition of a happy convalescent into a patient rapidly dying from this totally unexpected disaster. Nor is the picture of so-called "thromboembolism"1 infrequent. Neumann2 in a study of 165 random cadavers, found that 65 per cent of them demonstrated ante-mortem venous thromboses of the lower leg, 52 per cent of which were . . .

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