Endocrine Abstracts

Objective: Bleeding is one of the most dangerous complications following thyroid and parathyroid surgery. For this reason prophylactic perioperative thromboprophylaxis is not routinely use. The aim of this study is to investigate the incidence of clinical and subclinical deep vein thrombosis (DVT) and to validate the Caprini score as a predictive factor of high risk patients after these operations.Material and method: This is a prospective study involvin...