Clotting in veins close to skin may be associated with more dangerous deep-vein blood clots

Monday, July 20, 2009 - 15:56 in Health & Medicine

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.

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