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Guideline for Limb‐Salvage Treatment of Osteosarcoma

Orthopaedic Surgery, 2020
Osteosarcoma is the most common primary malignant bone tumor, occurring mainly in children and adolescents, and the limbs are the main affected sites.
Ming Xu, Xiu-Chun Yu, Jian-Hua Lin
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Advances in limb salvage treatment of osteosarcoma

Journal of Bone Oncology, 2018
Osteosarcoma is the most common primary malignant bone tumor; its standard treatment includes neoadjuvant chemotherapy combined with surgery. Neoadjuvant chemotherapy has significantly improved the 5-year survival and limb salvage rates in osteosarcoma ...
Yichun Yang, Xiaojuan Li, Zuozhang Yang   +2 more
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Limb salvage surgery

Indian Journal of Plastic Surgery, 2013
The threat of lower limb loss is seen commonly in severe crush injury, cancer ablation, diabetes, peripheral vascular disease and neuropathy. The primary goal of limb salvage is to restore and maintain stability and ambulation.
Dinesh Kadam
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Long-term efficient management of diabetic foot ulcer using simultaneous foot ulcer closure and surgical off-loading

JPRAS Open, 2021
Foot deformity is one of the causes of foot ulcers. Foot ulcers often recur due to foot deformity. Foot ulcer healing alone does not reduce the risk factor of foot ulcer recurrence. The majority of foot ulcer patients, most of whom are elderly, have foot
Yuta Terabe, Nobuhito Kaneko, Keisuke Nakabayashi, Akihiro Matsui, Hiroshi Ando   +4 more
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Adherence and the Diabetic Foot: High Tech Meets High Touch?

Sensors, 2023
Diabetic foot ulcers, which are a common complication of diabetes, can have a negative impact on a person’s physical and mental health, including an increased risk of depression. Patients suffering from depression are less likely to keep up with diabetic
Hadia Srass, J. Karim Ead, David G. Armstrong   +2 more
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Osseointegration Following Transfemoral Amputation After Infected Total Knee Replacement: A Case Series of 10 Patients With a Mean Follow-up of 5 Years

Arthroplasty Today, 2022
Background: Management of total knee replacement (TKR) infection may sometimes prompt knee fusion (KF) or transfemoral amputation (TFA), both associated with low mobility and quality of life (QOL).
Muhammad Adeel Akhtar, MBBS, FRCSEd, Jason Shih Hoellwarth, MD, Kevin Tetsworth, MD, FRACS, Atiya Oomatia, BEng Biomedical, Munjed Al Muderis, MB, ChB, FRACS   +4 more
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Five year mortality and direct costs of care for people with diabetic foot complications are comparable to cancer

Journal of Foot and Ankle Research, 2020
Background In 2007, we reported a summary of data comparing diabetic foot complications to cancer. The purpose of this brief report was to refresh this with the best available data as they currently exist.
David G. Armstrong, Mark A. Swerdlow, Alexandria A. Armstrong, Michael S. Conte, William V. Padula, Sicco A. Bus   +5 more
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The Clinical History and Basic Science Origins of Transcutaneous Osseointegration for Amputees

Advances in Orthopedics, 2022
Transcutaneous osseointegration for amputees (TOFA) refers to an intramedullary metal endoprosthesis which passes transcutaneously to connect with a limb exoprosthesis.
Jason Shih Hoellwarth, Kevin Tetsworth, Muhammad Adeel Akhtar, Munjed Al Muderis   +3 more
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A qualitative study of barriers to care‐seeking for diabetic foot ulceration across multiple levels of the healthcare system

Journal of Foot and Ankle Research, 2022
Introduction The mechanisms for the observed disparities in diabetes‐related amputation are poorly understood and could be related to access for diabetic foot ulceration (DFU) care.
Tze‐Woei Tan, Rebecca M. Crocker, Kelly N. B. Palmer, Chris Gomez, David G. Armstrong, David G. Marrero   +5 more
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Axillopopliteal bypass for limb salvage [PDF]

Journal of Vascular Surgery, 1992
Forty-one axillopopliteal bypass grafts have been placed in 30 patients for limb salvage in the past 12 years. The mean patient age was 65.6 years; 8 were women; 19 smoked; and six had diabetes. Sixteen grafts were straight axillopopliteal bypass grafts, and 25 were sequential axillopopliteal bypass grafts.
M P, Keller, J R, Hoch, A D, Harding, W K, Nichols, D, Silver   +4 more
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