Major Lower Extremity Amputation: Outcome of a Modern Series

Archives of Surgery

Volumn 139, Issue 4, 2004, Pages 395-399

  Aulivola, Bernadette ^a   Hile, Chantel N ^a   Hamdan, Allen D ^a   Sheahan, Malachi G ^a   Veraldi, Jennifer R ^a   Skillman, John J ^a   Campbell, David R ^a   Scovell, Sherry D ^a   LoGerfo, Frank W ^a   Pomposelli Jr , Frank B ^a   Flynn Jr , William F ^b  

^a BETH ISRAEL DEACONESS MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^b Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center ^*

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ABOVE KNEE AMPUTATION; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BELOW KNEE AMPUTATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIABETES MELLITUS; FEMALE; HEART DISEASE; HUMAN; INFECTION; KIDNEY FAILURE; LEG AMPUTATION; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MORBIDITY; PNEUMONIA; POSTOPERATIVE PERIOD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REOPERATION; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; SEPSIS; SURGICAL MORTALITY; SURVIVAL; WOUND INFECTION;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; AMPUTATION; COMORBIDITY; DIABETES MELLITUS; FEMALE; HEART DISEASES; HUMANS; ISCHEMIA; KIDNEY FAILURE, CHRONIC; LOWER EXTREMITY; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PNEUMONIA; REOPERATION; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SURGICAL WOUND INFECTION; SURVIVAL ANALYSIS; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 11144356746     PISSN: 00040010     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1001/archsurg.139.4.395     Document Type: Article

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