Deep vein thrombosis associated with lower extremity amputation
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Diagnosis of lower-extremity deep vein thrombosis in outpatients.
BACKGROUND AND PURPOSE Prompt identification of outpatients who may have proximal lower-extremity deep vein thrombosis (PDVT) is important, in part, because of the risk of pulmonary embolism. The purposes of our study were to determine the degree of accuracy of physical therapists' estimates of the probability of PDVT in hypothetical patient vignettes and to determine whether physical therapist...
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عنوان ژورنال: Journal of Vascular Surgery
سال: 1995
ISSN: 0741-5214
DOI: 10.1016/s0741-5214(95)70048-x