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To The Editor: Early in our academic career, we had the fortunate
experience of being authors of one of the earliest prospective, randomized
clinical studies in orthopaedic surgery. The study was designed to determine
whether the use of a thigh tourniquet influences the incidence of deep venous
thrombosis1. The results in a cohort of 117 patients who underwent
elective forefoot surgery showed that no patient had a venous thrombosis. A
recent study entitled "Venous Thrombosis After Hallux Valgus
Surgery" (2003;85:1204-8), by Radl et al., also showed a very low rate
of venous thrombosis; only four (4%) of 100 patients had calf-vein thrombosis.
This recent paper did not reference our article.