Let Them Walk! Current Prosthesis Options for Leg and Foot Amputees

Journal of the American College of Surgeons

Volumn 206, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 548-560

  Tang, Paul C Y ^a   Ravji, Karim ^a   Key, Jonathan J ^a   Mahler, David B ^a   Blume, Peter A ^a   Sumpio, Bauer ^a  

^a YALE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ABOVE KNEE AMPUTATION; BELOW KNEE AMPUTATION; DISABLED PERSON; ENERGY EXPENDITURE; FINGER AMPUTATION; FOOT AMPUTATION; HIP; HIP EXARTICULATION; HIP PROSTHESIS; HUMAN; KNEE AMPUTATION; KNEE PROSTHESIS; LEG AMPUTATION; LEG PROSTHESIS; LIMB; MEDICAL RESEARCH; MORTALITY; MUSCULOSKELETAL FUNCTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSTHESIS; REHABILITATION CARE; REVIEW; ROTATION; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE; WALKING AID; WOUND COMPLICATION; WOUND INFECTION;

AMPUTATION; ARTIFICIAL LIMBS; FOOT; HUMANS; KNEE PROSTHESIS; LEG; PROSTHESIS DESIGN;

EID: 39649089146     PISSN: 10727515     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jamcollsurg.2007.10.007     Document Type: Review

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