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Understanding Amputation

The Consultant Pharmacist, 2008
Approximately 134,000 amputations occur annually in the United States, resulting mostly from peripheral vascular disease. The risk of amputation increases with age, peaking among those 85 years of age and older. As a lifesaving and life-defining procedure, amputations result in physical and emotional changes affecting quality of life.
Guido R, Zanni, Jeannette Y, Wick
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Transmetatarsal Amputations

Clinics in Podiatric Medicine and Surgery, 2005
Transmetatarsal amputation is an excellent procedure in the face of nonhealing ulceration, infection, trauma, peripheral vascular disease, and tumors. This article discusses transmetatarsal amputations, the decision-making process, timing of surgery, operative techniques, postoperative management, and salvage of the failed transmetatarsal amputation.
George F, Wallace, John J, Stapleton
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Foot Amputations

Surgical Clinics of North America, 1995
When presented with an ischemic limb with forefoot necrosis of varying amounts, the surgeon often categorizes the need for amputation into toe, ray, transmetatarsal, below-knee, and above-knee. Adherence to this type of algorithm ensures a primary above- or below-knee amputation rate of 10% to 20%. The utility of the more uncommon amputations advocated
B B, Chang   +4 more
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Syme's Amputation

The Journal of Bone and Joint Surgery. British volume, 1956
This issue of ARTIFICIAL LIMBS is, and always will be, a classical contribution to everything pertaining to Syme's amputation, including, as it does, the most detailed and accurate description extant of the proper method of doing the amputation. It has to be remembered that Syme was the greatest of the pre-Listerian surgeons and, indeed, his operation ...
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