TY - BOOK AU - Bishoy Nady Aziz Younan AU - Abobakr Zein Mohamed , AU - Ahmed Mahmoud Kholeif , TI - The incidence of DVT after arthroscopic knee surgery / PY - 2014/// CY - Cairo : PB - Bishoy Nady Aziz Younan , KW - Arthroscopic knee surgery KW - DVT KW - Knee arthroscopiy N1 - Thesis (M.Sc.) - Cairo University - Faculty of Medicine - Department of Orthopedic Surgery; Issued also as CD N2 - DVT in the lower extremity is a life threatening complication in the orthopedic practice and although the knee arthroscopy surgeries can be considered an outpatient surgery, the risk of postoperative DVT was unclear. This work was done on 50 cases to study incidence of DVT after arthroscopic knee surgery. The overall incidence rate of DVT after arthroscopic knee surgery was 2%, compared to the small population group available. We don{u2019}t recommend the use of prophylactic low molecular weight heparin prior to knee arthroscopies since the incidence of DVT is very low UR - http://172.23.153.220/th.pdf ER -