Predictors for the healing of transmetatarsal amputations: Retrospective study of 91 amputations

Vascular

Volumn 15, Issue 3, 2007, Pages 126-133

  Blume, Peter ^a,c   Salonga, Christine ^a   Garbalosa, Juan ^b   Pierre Paul, Daphne ^a   Key, Jonathon ^a   Gahtan, Vivian ^a   Sumpio, Bauer E ^a  

^a YALE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b QUINNIPIAC UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c Affiliated Foot Surgeons   (United States)

Author keywords

Limb salvage; Revascularization; Transmetatarsal amputation

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; AMPUTATION; ARTICLE; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; HEALING; HUMAN; KIDNEY FAILURE; LEG REVASCULARIZATION; LEUKOCYTOSIS; LIMB SALVAGE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PREDICTOR VARIABLE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; TRANSMETATARSAL AMPUTATION;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; AMPUTATION; FEMALE; FOOT; HUMANS; LIMB SALVAGE; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; TREATMENT OUTCOME; WOUND HEALING;

EID: 34548008392     PISSN: 17085381     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2310/6670.2007.00035     Document Type: Article

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