Detection of Venous Thrombosis

Thrombosis in the veins of the lower extremity! Is there any condition more ubiquitous, heedless of specialty boundaries, elusive of diagnosis or in need of better focused prophylactic and therapeutic measures? Since complete salvage of the patient is often possible, even small triumphs over it can be rewarding.Recent years have produced several new technics for detecting the presence of venous thrombosis, which in its early and dangerous form is notoriously difficult of recognition from "clinical" signs and symptoms. One of the new methods is scanning the lower extremity for radioactivity after systemic injection of 125I-tagged fibrinogen. Studies comparing positive . . .