Selective Physiologic Amputation

A new physiologic race

Amniotic amputation

Amniotic band syndrome (ABS) is an uncommon, congenital fetal abnormality. Lower extremity limb defects are the common manifestations of ABS. The most common features include congenital distal ring constrictions, intrauterine amputations, and acrosyndactyly. Rare cases of craniofacial and visceral defects were reported. A female newborn, born at 33 weeks of gestation from a 43 years-old mother,...

Tunable physiologic interactions of adhesion molecules for inflamed cell-selective drug delivery.

Dysregulated inflammation contributes to the pathogenesis of various diseases. Therapeutic efficacy of anti-inflammatory agents, however, falls short against resilient inflammatory responses, whereas long-term and high-dose systemic administration can cause adverse side effects. Site-directed drug delivery systems would thus render more effective and safer treatments by increasing local dosage ...

Syme's amputation.

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 was developed to combat the disastrous sept...

Amputation stumps.