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Lower limb amputation: planning surgery

Journal of Wound Care, 1998
A discussion of the assessment, wound management and rehabilitation of patients with lower limb amputation
K, Vowden, I, Spark, P, Vowden
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Adjustments to amputation and an artificial limb in lower limb amputees

Prosthetics & Orthotics International, 2014
Positive adjustments to amputation and an artificial limb play important roles in the rehabilitation process.To study the different facets of adjustments to amputation and an artificial limb in lower limb amputees and to assess the possible role of different background and amputation-related factors that could potentially influence these adjustments ...
Sinha, Richa, van den Heuvel, Wim J. A., Arokiasamy, Perianayagam   +2 more
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Early Fitting of Artificial Limbs to Amputated Lower Limbs

Acta Chirurgica Belgica, 2004
Specific rehabilitation of patients with amputated lower limbs is first of all rehabilitation to walk with a prosthesis (artificial limb). After 20 years of practice of prosthetic early fitting for lower limbs amputees using practice prosthesis, the authors suggest that this technique is still up-to-date.
B Maertens, de Noordhout, L, Pirnay, A, de Brogniez   +2 more
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Lower Limb Amputation and the Diabetic Foot

JAMA: The Journal of the American Medical Association, 1995
To the Editor. —The figure consistently quoted as the number of lower extremity amputations among patients with diabetes in the United States is around 50000 yearly. 1 Without further clarification, use of this single figure misleads the less informed by leaving an erroneous perception of lost feet or limbs.
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Lower limb amputations

Prosthetics & Orthotics International, 2001
The authors consecutively recorded all lower limb amputations performed at the University Hospital of Trondheim from January 1st, 1994 to January 1st, 1997. A total of 215 primary lower limb amputations were carried out in the study period: 40 partial foot amputations, 2 ankle disarticulations, 51 trans-tibial amputations, 68 knee disarticulations, 50 ...
E, Witsø, H, Rønningen
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Lower-Limb Deficiencies and Amputations in Children

Journal of the American Academy of Orthopaedic Surgeons, 1998
Important differences exist in the management of child and adult amputees. Many factors, including the etiology of childhood limb deficiencies, expected skeletal growth, functional demand on the locomotor system and prosthesis, appositional bone stump overgrowth, and psychological challenges, make caring for these young patients particularly ...
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DERMATITIS OF LOWER LIMB AMPUTATION STUMP

JAMA: The Journal of the American Medical Association, 1952
The person who has had amputation of a lower limb and who wears a prosthesis subjects the skin of his stump to multiple insults. Mechanical trauma, if acute, may cause edema, erythema, denudation of epithelium, or ulceration; if chronic, it may cause lichenification, callus formation, and hyperpigmentation.
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Lower Limb Amputations

2008
Dhiraj Choudhury, Saugata Deb
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Lower limb amputation

2016
Jonathan Beard, Wissam Al-Jundi
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AMPUTATIONS OF THE LOWER LIMB IN A REPATRIATION HOSPITAL

Medical Journal of Australia, 1970
P F, Thursby, R M, Dunn
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