Osteomyoplastic transtibial amputation: technique and tips
Open Access
- 1 January 2011
- journal article
- Published by Springer Science and Business Media LLC in Journal of Orthopaedic Surgery and Research
- Vol. 6 (1), 13
- https://doi.org/10.1186/1749-799x-6-13
Abstract
Treatment of severe lower extremity trauma, diabetic complications, infections, dysvascular limbs, neoplasia, developmental pathology, or other conditions often involves amputation of the involved extremity. However, techniques of lower extremity amputation have largely remained stagnant over decades.Keywords
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