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Global prevalence of traumatic non-fatal limb amputation.
Prosthetics and orthotics international, 2020BACKGROUND Reliable information on both global need for prosthetic services and the current prosthetist workforce is limited. Global burden of disease estimates can provide valuable insight into amputation prevalence due to traumatic causes and global ...
Cody L McDonald +4 more
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Meta‐analysis of risk factors for amputation in diabetic foot infections
Diabetes/Metabolism Research Reviews, 2019Knowledge of risk factors is crucial to develop management and treatment protocols for the prevention of lower extremity amputation for patients with diabetic foot infections (DFIs).
Pınar Sen, T. Demirdal, B. Emir
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Reinventing Extremity Amputation in the Era of Functional Limb Restoration.
Annals of Surgery, 2020BACKGROUND Recent progress in biomechatronics and vascularized composite allotransplantation have occurred in the absence of congruent advancements in the surgical approaches generally utilized for limb amputation.
H. Herr +6 more
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Targeted Muscle Reinnervation Technique in Below-Knee Amputation
Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery, 2019Summary: Approximately 25 percent of major limb amputees will develop chronic localized symptomatic neuromas and phantom limb pain in the residual limb. A method to treat and possibly prevent these pain symptoms is targeted reinnervation.
J. B. Bowen +4 more
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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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Journal of Foot and Ankle Surgery, 2016
High mortality rates have been reported after major amputations of a lower limb secondary to diabetes and peripheral vascular disease. However, the mortality rates have varied across studies. A systematic review of the 5-year mortality after nontraumatic
Jakob C. Thorud +4 more
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High mortality rates have been reported after major amputations of a lower limb secondary to diabetes and peripheral vascular disease. However, the mortality rates have varied across studies. A systematic review of the 5-year mortality after nontraumatic
Jakob C. Thorud +4 more
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Journal of Perioperative Practice, 2015
Today we take for granted the blessing of anaesthesia and it is almost impossible for us to imagine the agonies that surgical patients underwent in the past. This description of a mastectomy, performed in 1720 by Lorenz Heister, Professor of Surgery and Anatomy in Altdorf in the republic of Nurnberg, (now part of Germany), gives a vivid idea of major ...
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Today we take for granted the blessing of anaesthesia and it is almost impossible for us to imagine the agonies that surgical patients underwent in the past. This description of a mastectomy, performed in 1720 by Lorenz Heister, Professor of Surgery and Anatomy in Altdorf in the republic of Nurnberg, (now part of Germany), gives a vivid idea of major ...
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