BACKGROUND While multiple studies have examined amputations that have occurred during the current conflicts in Iraq and Afghanistan, none of these studies have provided an overarching characterization of all of these injuries. METHODS A retrospective study of all major extremity amputations sustained by US Service Members from January 2001 through July 30, 2011, was performed. Data obtained f...

Traumatic amputations of limbs profoundly alter the lives of affected service members. Service members are at risk for traumatic amputations of limbs during combat deployments as well as from other hazards such as motor vehicle accidents. From 2000 to 2011, there were 6,144 incident cases of traumatic amputations among 5,694 service members. Over one-third of these service members (n=2,037) had...

BACKGROUND Diabetic foot ulceration is receiving more attention because of its high amputation and mortality rate. It is essential to establish the frequency of amputations in people with diabetes after any change to the management of diabetic foot care. The present study aim to compare the frequency of lower-extremity amputations in patients with diabetes foot ulcer over a ten-year period. M...

OBJECTIVES To determine the indications and complications of major limb amputations in a Nigerian hospital. DESIGN A five-year retrospective descriptive study. SETTING National Orthopaedic Hospital, Dala, Kano, Nigeria. PARTICIPANTS Patients who had amputations above the wrist or ankle between January 2006 and December 2010. MAIN OUTCOME MEASURES Indications, complications and mortality...

INTRODUCTION Amputation of the severely ischaemic leg is often done when limb salvage is not possible or the patient is not fit enough for it. It is therefore important to determine the natural history of these amputees as our understanding of this will have significant impact on decision making. The aim of this study was to determine the early and late morbidity and mortality rates and rehabil...

OBJECTIVE To determine trends in the incidence of foot-related hospitalisation and amputation amongst persons with diabetes in Queensland (Australia) between 2005 and 2010 that coincided with changes in state-wide ambulatory diabetic foot-related complication management. METHODS All data from cases admitted for the principal reason of diabetes foot-related hospitalisation or amputation in Que...

The aim of this study was to give a retrospective review of all lower limb amputations performed in the 3 northern provinces of the Netherlands in 1991-1992. Assembled data were compared with the existing information in the National Medical Register (NMR) over the same period. With the participation of all regional hospitals, 473 lower limb amputations from transpelvic to transmetatarsal level ...

The clinical manifestations of 88 children with congenital constriction band syndrome involvement of the hand were reviewed. Seventy-five of these children had evidence of digital or limb amputations, with 235 upper limb amputations and 138 lower limb amputations. In the hand, digital amputations were most common in the index, middle, and ring fingers, whereas in the foot, amputations of the ha...