Recently, I received an e-mail from a frantic woman in another state. She had just learned that her husband's brother had a thrombosis associated with an inherited tendency to hypercoagulability. Her 12-year-old daughter was about to undergo hernia surgery. She asked whether the operation should be
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David Green (2001) studied this question.
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