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There should be is an explicit upper bound based on a 2-d version of the Crofton formula. Namely, the area of $B \cap V$ is the integral of the number of points of intersection $W \cap (B \cap V)$ over the space of all affine 2-planes $W \subseteq \mathbb{R}^{2n}$. Since the real algebraic variety $B \cap V$ has degree $\leq d^2$ (is this optimal?) the number of points of intersection is at most $d^2$. So an upper bound is $d^2$ times the measure of the space of affine $2$-planes meeting $B$. It seems to me that, unless I have misunderstood, the bound on the coefficients is unnecssary.

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There should be an explicit upper bound based on a 2-d version of the Crofton formula. Namely, the area of $B \cap V$ is the integral of the number of points of intersection $W \cap (B \cap V)$ over the space of all affine 2-planes $W \subseteq \mathbb{R}^{2n}$. Since the real algebraic variety $B \cap V$ has degree $\leq d^2$ (is this optimal?) the number of points of intersection is at most $d^2$. So an upper bound is $d^2$ times the measure of the space of affine $2$-planes meeting $B$. It seems to me that, unless I have misunderstood, the bound on the coefficients is unnecssary.