[Incidence of deep venous thromboses in traumatology and methods of early detection]

In this work carried out at the Traumatology Centre in Strasbourg, out of 227 patients operated for a fracture situated between the pelvis and the tibial plateau, the authors endeavoured to show a thrombosis of the lower limbs. The means of exploration included in addition to the clinical and biological blood tests an isotopic, rheographic and phlebographic surveillance. The latter three ways of exploration are particularly viewed in this study, during which it was possible to demonstrate 44 p. 100 thrombo-embolic manifestations of which 38 p. 100 were detected only by the isotopic method, the phlebographic check for its part confirming 80 p. 100 of the clinically undeclared cases of thrombosis.