Prevalence and causal conditions for amputation surgery in the third world: Ten years experience at Dodoma Regional Hospital, Tanzania

Prosthetics and Orthotics International

Volumn 23, Issue 3, 1999, Pages 217-224

  Loro, A ^a,b   Franceschi, F ^a  

^a Eye Department   (Tanzania)

^b NONE   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARM AMPUTATION; BITE; BURN; CONFERENCE PAPER; CULTURAL FACTOR; FEMALE; HUMAN; LEG AMPUTATION; LIMB INJURY; LIMB TUMOR; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PREVALENCE; TANZANIA; VASCULAR DISEASE;

EID: 0033454752     PISSN: 03093646     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3109/03093649909071637     Document Type: Conference Paper

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