AMPUTATION OF ALL TOES

"Ainhum," or Spontaneous Amputation of the Toes

Dr. Menzel's case was that of a woman aged forty-four, with marked congenital deformities of all the fingers and toes, except the right thumb, which was normal The right middle finger, at the middle of the first phalanx, and the right index finger, the middle of the second phalanx, were contracted by deep furrows, with enlargement of the part beyond the constriction in the former instance. On s...

DIGITAL AMPUTATION PLANNING IN THE DIABETIC PATIENT: The Too Few Toes Principle

The US spends one in fi ve health care dollars on the care of diabetic patients, with the total cost of diagnosed diabetes estimated at over $245 billion in 2012 (1). For the diabetic patient with at least one form of foot disease, (defi ned as the presence of neuropathy, peripheral arterial disease, foot deformity, active infection, ulceration or gangrene in at least one lower extremity) the o...

All-Cause Mortality After Diabetes-Related Amputation in Barbados

OBJECTIVE To determine the mortality rate after diabetes-related lower-extremity amputation (LEA) in an African-descent Caribbean population. RESEARCH DESIGN AND METHODS We conducted a prospective case-control study. We recruited case subjects (with diabetes and LEA) and age-matched control subjects (with diabetes and no LEA) between 1999 and 2001. We followed these groups for 5 years to asse...

Time, TOEs, and UltraStructuralism

Mathematics, broadly speaking, is the science of patterns. Physics, broadly speaking, is the search for patterns in the natural world. Eugene Wigner’s [12] famous problem concerning the “unreasonable effectiveness of mathematics in the natural sciences” constitutes an expression of puzzlement over the empirical success of physics, based as it is on mathematics. Put this way, of course, the prob...

'Scissor deformity' of the toes.