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Preoperative assessment of fragment D-dimer as a predictor of postoperative venous thrombosis
G J Olt1, C Greenberg, I Synan
1Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, Duke University Medical Center, Durham, NC 27710.
American Journal of Obstetrics and Gynecology
|March 1, 1990
Abstract:
We used a latex agglutination assay to measure preoperative plasma fragment D-dimer levels in patients admitted to a gynecologic oncology service. Eight percent of 71 patients with gynecologic cancer had elevated fragment D-dimer levels; none of these patients developed postoperative deep venous thrombosis. Preoperative elevation of the fragment D-dimer level was not predictive of postoperative deep venous thrombosis.