Incidence of postoperative deep vein thrombosis in Hong Kong Chinese

Abstract

Postoperative deep vein thrombosis is considered to be rare in Chinese. The 125I-labelled fibrinogen test was used to determine the true incidence of postoperative deep vein thrombosis in Chinese. Deep vein thrombosis was found in 2.6 per cent, a very low incidence compared with Caucasian series.