Symptomless postoperative thrombosis of the deep calf veins--treatment and prognosis.

Deep calf vein thrombosis in the rule can be diagnosed by objective methods like 125I fibrinogen up take test only. But if the diagnosis is done, we have to cure because the risk of the single case is not calculable prospectively. After our therapy we never saw neither progressive development of the thromboembolic process, nor haemorrhagic complications.