Knee disarticulation and hip release for severe lower extremity contractures

Clinical Orthopaedics and Related Research

Volumn 462, Issue , 2007, Pages 150-155

  Cipriano, Cara ^a   Keenan, Mary Ann E ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

^b HOSPITAL OF THE UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ANALGESIA; ARTICLE; BODY POSITION; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTRACTURE; DISEASE SEVERITY; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; HUMAN; HYGIENE; KNEE AMPUTATION; KNEE FUNCTION; KNEE SURGERY; MALE; NEUROLOGIC DISEASE; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; PREOPERATIVE PERIOD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUALITY OF LIFE; RECURRENT DISEASE; SPASTICITY; WHEELCHAIR; AMPUTATION; HIP; JOINT CHARACTERISTICS AND FUNCTIONS; KNEE; LEG; MIDDLE AGED; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY;

AGED; AMPUTATION; CONTRACTURE; FEMALE; HIP; HUMANS; KNEE JOINT; LOWER EXTREMITY; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MUSCLE SPASTICITY; RANGE OF MOTION, ARTICULAR; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES;

EID: 34548409588     PISSN: 0009921X     EISSN: 15281132     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/BLO.0b013e3180ca8e96     Document Type: Article

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