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Through Knee Amputation: Technique Modifications and Surgical Outcomes [PDF]
Archives of Plastic Surgery, 2014 Background Knee disarticulations (KD) are most commonly employed following trauma or tumor resection but represent less than 2% of all lower extremity amputations performed in the United States annually.
F. Albino +4 more
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Surgical strategies for prevention of amputation of the diabetic foot [PDF]
Journal of Clinical Orthopaedics and Trauma, 2021 Prevention of amputation has become a key objective of clinicians providing care to patients with high-risk diabetic foot problems. In this regard, the multidisciplinary diabetic foot team (MDFT) has been embraced as the most effective way to manage patients with foot ulcers, infections, and Charcot feet.
Robert G. Frykberg +6 more
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Current Problems in Cancer: Case Reports, 2021 Forequarter amputation is a very demolitive surgical procedure that affects the quality of life and it is performed when the tumour involves the proximal end of homerus and the shoulder.
Claudia Di Prata +5 more
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Foot & Ankle Orthopaedics, 2022 Category: Diabetes Introduction/Purpose: Some patients with below knee (BK) amputation for treatment of ischemic and/or infectious foot disease eventually further progress to above knee (AK) amputation.
Ki Chun Kim MD +5 more
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Exoskeletal solutions to enable mobility with a lower leg fracture in austere environments
Wearable Technologies, 2023 The treatment and evacuation of people with lower limb fractures in austere environments presents unique challenges that assistive exoskeletal devices could address.
W. Brett Johnson +5 more
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Diabetes mellitus and necrotizing fasciitis – a deadly combination; case report [PDF]
, 2020 Necrotizing fasciitis is a rapidly destructive affliction of soft tissues, with a mortality rate that may reach 73% of the cases. It is characterized by a progressive inflammation and extended necrosis of the subcutaneous tissue and the fascia ...
Andronache, Liliana Florina +8 more
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Patients' perception and attitude to surgical amputation in Makurdi, North Central Nigeria
Nigerian Journal of Medicine, 2020 Background: There has been a global rise in surgical amputations because of vascular complications of diabetes mellitus, among other factors. About 22% of patients usually decline or delay consent for the operation leading to poor outcomes.
Williams Terhemen Yongu +4 more
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Pain Research and Management, 2022 Purpose. Hemophilic osteoarthropathy (HO) is a common cause of spontaneous bleeding in hemophiliacs. Surgical procedures are necessary for patients with severe HO. As a last resort, amputation is sometimes needed to treat complex HO cases.
Yiming Xu +4 more
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Self-penile amputation: A case of Klingsor Syndrome
Urology Case Reports, 2021 Klingsor Syndrome is an infrequent Surgical and Psychiatric emergency. We present such a case of self-penile amputation with delayed presentation precluding re-plantation.
Rono D. Kipkemoi +3 more
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Interventional Treatment Options for the Prevention of Amputation in Patients With Lower Extremity Wounds From Peripheral Arterial Disease [PDF]
Texas Heart Institute JournalBackground Peripheral arterial disease and related lower extremity wounds are prominent causes of amputation. Revascularization may reduce amputation rates or the amputation margin more distally in patients with peripheral arterial disease who have ...
Akin Torun, MD, Ulas Bildirici, MD
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