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Article: Clotting in veins close to skin may be associated with more dangerous deep-vein blood clots.
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- August 9, 2009
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About one-fourth of patients with superficial vein thrombosis-clotting in blood vessels close to the skin-also may have the life-threatening condition deep vein thrombosis, according to a report in the July issue of Archives of Dermatology, one of the JAMA/Archives journals.
"Superficial vein thrombosis is a common disease that most often affects the veins of the leg but can also be found in other locations," the authors write as background information in the article. Different risk factors have been reported, many of which are the same as risk factors for deep vein thrombosis-varicose veins, thrombophilia (a disorder in which the blood clots too easily), use of ...