Complications following limb-threatening lower extremity trauma

Journal of Orthopaedic Trauma

Volumn 23, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 1-6

  Harris, Anthony M ^a   Althausen, Peter L ^b   Kellam, James ^c   Bosse, Michael J ^c   Castillo, Renan ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA HEALTH JACKSONVILLE   (United States)

^b Reno Orthopaedic Clinic   (United States)

^c CAROLINAS MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^d JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Amputation; Complications; LEAP; Reconstruction; Salvage

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; AMPUTATION STUMP; ARTHRITIS; ARTICLE; BONE REMODELING; CLINICAL TRIAL; COMPARTMENT SYNDROME; COMPLEX REGIONAL PAIN SYNDROME; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEEP VEIN THROMBOSIS; FOLLOW UP; FRACTURE NONUNION; HUMAN; LEG AMPUTATION; LEG INJURY; LIMB SALVAGE; LUNG EMBOLISM; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MORBIDITY; MULTICENTER STUDY; NERVE INJURY; NEUROMA; OSTEOMYELITIS; PHANTOM PAIN; PHLEBITIS; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REOPERATION; TREATMENT OUTCOME; WOUND DEHISCENCE; WOUND INFECTION; AMPUTATION; INCIDENCE; MIDDLE AGED; NECROSIS; PATHOLOGY; PLASTIC SURGERY; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; SURGICAL INFECTION; UNITED STATES;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; AMPUTATION; FRACTURES, UNUNITED; HUMANS; INCIDENCE; LEG INJURIES; LIMB SALVAGE; MIDDLE AGED; NECROSIS; OSTEOMYELITIS; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RECONSTRUCTIVE SURGICAL PROCEDURES; REOPERATION; SURGICAL WOUND INFECTION; UNITED STATES; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 59449097498     PISSN: 08905339     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/BOT.0b013e31818e43dd     Document Type: Article

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