Success rates for rehabilitation of vascular amputees: Implications for preoperative assessment and amputation level
- 1 August 1992
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Oxford University Press (OUP) in British Journal of Surgery
- Vol. 79 (8), 753-755
- https://doi.org/10.1002/bjs.1800790811
Abstract
All lower limb amputations performed during 1986 and 1988 in eight hospitals in the south-east region were assessed. Of 440 amputations for vascular dKeywords
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