TY - JOUR AU - Scurr, J H AB - Correspondence if required (as stated in the paper). The reason for a 16 per cent ‘failure’ lower limb that may be affected by deep vein thrombosis. A of conservative management may be due to the late referral of children postoperative study to determine the relationship of venous distension following onset of symptoms of strangulation (up to 96 h), and to the in the lower limb with deep vein thrombosis is obviously the next stage. fact that many children (36 per cent) had had failed conservative This would be inapproprite unless we had a satisfactory method for management at other hospitals. We were able to reduce many of these estimating peroperative changes in vein diameter. Our paper has but failed in some. established that the method used is capable of demonstrating On ii more optimistic note, a look through our audit computer peroperative distension in calf veins. shows no emergency operations were performed for irreducible inguinal The suggestion that spinal and epidural anaesthesia reduces the hernias in the preceding 12 months. It appears the message is getting incidence of deep vein thrombosis following hip surgery has not been through. substantiated by subsequent objective investigation’, and it was not our purpose TI - Venous stasis and vein lumen changes during surgery JO - British Journal of Surgery DO - 10.1002/bjs.1800780442 DA - 1991-04-01 UR - https://www.deepdyve.com/lp/oxford-university-press/venous-stasis-and-vein-lumen-changes-during-surgery-dgl8yv6pKe SP - 505 EP - 505 VL - 78 IS - 4 DP - DeepDyve ER -