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SUBMITTER: Ke L
PROVIDER: S-EPMC7471045 | biostudies-literature | 2020 Jul
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Ke Lihui L Cui Songping S Chen Shuo S Hu Bin B Li Hui H
Thoracic cancer 20200713 9
<h4>Background</h4>Venous thromboembolism (VTE) occurs at a high rate after lung cancer surgery and can be attributed to various clinical risk factors. Here, we aimed to determine whether early detection of perioperative D-dimer and risk-stratified cutoff values would improve the diagnostic efficacy of VTE.<h4>Methods</h4>In this case-control study, D-dimer results were acquired from 171 non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC) patients preoperatively and at the first, third, and fifth day after surge ...[more]