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Light pain and tingling in left calf, occasional chest pains & sweats. cbc and d-dimer negative. dr examined leg this morning, but now i have a bruise?

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Dr. Dan Fisher
Internal Medicine 29 years experience
Not DVT.: Sounds like you are concerned about a deep vein thrombosis. With a normal D dimer that is very unlikely. Also the appearance of a bruise suggests a musculoskeletal injury and not a DVT. Hard to correlate chest symptoms with your leg symptoms.
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