Syme Amputation for Limb Salvage: Early Experience with 26 Cases

Journal of Foot and Ankle Surgery

Volumn 46, Issue 2, 2007, Pages 93-100

  Frykberg, Robert G ^a   Abraham, Suzanne ^a   Tierney, Edward ^a   Hall, Jared ^a  

^a NONE

Author keywords

amputation; diabetes; foot; infection; ulcer

Indexed keywords

ABOVE KNEE AMPUTATION; ADULT; AGED; ANKLE DISLOCATION; ARTERY DISEASE; ARTICLE; BELOW KNEE AMPUTATION; CLINICAL ARTICLE; DATA ANALYSIS; DEMOGRAPHY; DIABETES MELLITUS; DISEASE DURATION; EXPERIENCE; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; GANGRENE; HIGH RISK POPULATION; HUMAN; INFECTION; LIMB AMPUTATION; MALE; MEDICAL RECORD; MORTALITY; OSTEOMYELITIS; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PERIPHERAL VASCULAR DISEASE; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; PROSTHESIS; RECURRENT DISEASE; RISK ASSESSMENT; SEPSIS; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE; SYME AMPUTATION; ULCER; WOUND HEALING;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; DIABETIC FOOT; DISARTICULATION; FOOT; HUMANS; LIMB SALVAGE; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES;

EID: 33847191438     PISSN: 10672516     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1053/j.jfas.2006.11.005     Document Type: Article

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