Limb Amputation

Patients often need to have limbs amputated to save them from advanced malignant neoplasms and severe limb infections, or due to the failure to repair severe limb trauma. However, efforts should be made to maintain limbs where possible, and to minimize loss of function if amputation is required. We...

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description Patients often need to have limbs amputated to save them from advanced malignant neoplasms and severe limb infections, or due to the failure to repair severe limb trauma. However, efforts should be made to maintain limbs where possible, and to minimize loss of function if amputation is required. We provide the latest developments in limb amputation for this purpose. This book provides expert commentary on the following issues: cutting to prevent large-scale amputations in peripheral arterial disease and diabetes, optimal wound treatment in severe trauma, troubles of prostheses due to stump overgrowth in amputation in children.We hope this book will help physicians dealing with limb illness and trauma, and all amputee patients.
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spelling doab-20.500.12854ir-672972024-04-01T14:11:30Z Limb Amputation Fujioka, Masaki Orthopaedics & fractures thema EDItEUR::M Medicine and Nursing::MN Surgery::MNJ Vascular surgery Patients often need to have limbs amputated to save them from advanced malignant neoplasms and severe limb infections, or due to the failure to repair severe limb trauma. However, efforts should be made to maintain limbs where possible, and to minimize loss of function if amputation is required. We provide the latest developments in limb amputation for this purpose. This book provides expert commentary on the following issues: cutting to prevent large-scale amputations in peripheral arterial disease and diabetes, optimal wound treatment in severe trauma, troubles of prostheses due to stump overgrowth in amputation in children.We hope this book will help physicians dealing with limb illness and trauma, and all amputee patients. 2021-04-20T16:09:28Z 2021-04-20T16:09:28Z 2020 book ONIX_20210420_9781789844061_2656 9781789844061 9781789844054 9781838807634 https://directory.doabooks.org/handle/20.500.12854/67297 eng image/jpeg n/a https://www.intechopen.com/books https://mts.intechopen.com/storage/books/7975/authors_book/authors_book.pdf IntechOpen IntechOpen 10.5772/intechopen.77805 10.5772/intechopen.77805 78a36484-2c0c-47cb-ad67-2b9f5cd4a8f6 9781789844061 9781789844054 9781838807634 IntechOpen 78 open access
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Limb Amputation
title Limb Amputation
title_full Limb Amputation
title_fullStr Limb Amputation
title_full_unstemmed Limb Amputation
title_short Limb Amputation
title_sort limb amputation
topic Orthopaedics & fractures
thema EDItEUR::M Medicine and Nursing::MN Surgery::MNJ Vascular surgery
topic_facet Orthopaedics & fractures
thema EDItEUR::M Medicine and Nursing::MN Surgery::MNJ Vascular surgery
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