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Low relative muscle volume: Correlation with prevalence of venous thromboembolism following total knee arthroplasty

BACKGROUND: There have been many efforts to find modifiable risk factors for venous thromboembolism (VTE) in the perioperative period of total knee arthroplasty (TKA), while no study has investigated the relationship between the muscle mass and deep vein thrombosis (DVT) or pulmonary embolism freque...

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Autores principales: Shin, Jung-Min, Hong, Su-Jin, Choi, Kyung-Hwa, Shin, Sung-Il, Lee, Do Kyung, Lee, Sung-Sahn, Lee, Byung Hoon
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Public Library of Science 2019
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6400339/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/30835735
http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0210800