title: Clinical laboratory studies for the podiatric surgical patient.
abstract: Doctor Arden emphasizes the mimportance of the preoperative history and physical examination, including clinical laboratory studies, on all podiatric surgical patients. He discusses the complete blood count, coagulation studies, blood chemistry, serologic tests for syphilis, and urinalysis. These clinical studies may give evidence of undetected disease which could have a major impact on the surgery to be performed.
mesh_terms: D001780:Blood Coagulation Tests; D004906:Erythrocyte Count; D005534:Foot Diseases / Q000097:blood / Q000601:surgery* / Q000652:urine; D006801:Humans; D007958:Leukocyte Count; D011300:Preoperative Care; D013588:Syphilis Serodiagnosis