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Amputations below the knee.
2 Director, Prosthetics Research Study, Seattle, Wash. AHE elective amputation must be considered plastic and reconstructive in nature. The need to create a dynamic and sensory motor end-organ should be foremost in the surgeon's mind in planning an amputation, and is emphasized here once more. The below-knee stump no longer hangs suspended in an open-end socket. The variable degrees of pressure...
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The Ilizarov fixator can be used as a bone regenerator to correct limb-length discrepancies in patients who require limb lengthening.A 17-year-old man presented with 12 cm of left lower-limb shortening and amputation at the left mid-forefoot region, which was the result of severe burns of the left lower limb at 2 years of age. The burns damaged the distal femoral, proximal, and distal tibial ph...
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INTRODUCTION This study aims to evaluate the predictive factors affecting the clinical outcome of Below Knee Amputations (BKA) performed in diabetic foot patients admitted to National University Hospital (NUH) Multi-Disciplinary Diabetic Foot Team. MATERIALS AND METHODS This is a prospective cohort study of 151 patients admitted to the Department of Orthopaedic Surgery, NUH, for Diabetic Foot...
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Objective: To review patient characteristics and outcomes after peripheral arterial disease (PAD)-related below-knee amputation (BKA), and identify risk factors predicting subsequent above-knee amputation (AKA). Materials and Methods: A retrospective study of 210 BKAs between May 2008 and December 2015. Results: The mean age of the study population was 66 years. Most of the patients had cardiov...
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ژورنال
عنوان ژورنال: JAMA: The Journal of the American Medical Association
سال: 1906
ISSN: 0098-7484
DOI: 10.1001/jama.1906.62510330007001b