When can abdominal surgery be safely performed for presumptive ovarian cancer in a patient with recent pulmonary emboli?
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How long do you wait before major abdominal surgery for malignancy in the setting of a recent PE?
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In general, the standard approach is to try to wait as long as possible after the thrombotic event, at the very least three months. This may not be possible, we then reduce that time interval to one month. Given the urgent nature of the surgical intervention, one approach is to wait one month and co...
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