Painful neuroma requiring surgical excision after lower limb amputation caused by landmine explosions

International Orthopaedics

Volumn 33, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 533-536

  Sehirlioglu, Ali ^a   Ozturk, Cagatay ^b   Yazicioglu, Kamil ^b   Tugcu, Ilknur ^b   Yilmaz, Bilge ^b   Goktepe, Ahmet Salim ^b  

^a GULHANE SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Turkey)

^b Turkish Armed Forces Rehabilitation and Care Center   (Turkey)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

NONSTEROID ANTIINFLAMMATORY AGENT;

ADULT; ARTICLE; CLINICAL FEATURE; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; HUMAN; LEG AMPUTATION; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; NEUROMA; PHYSIOTHERAPY; POSTOPERATIVE PAIN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSTHESIS; SYMPTOMATOLOGY; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

ADULT; AMPUTATION; AMPUTATION STUMPS; ARTIFICIAL LIMBS; BLAST INJURIES; COHORT STUDIES; EXPLOSIONS; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HUMANS; INJURY SEVERITY SCORE; LOWER EXTREMITY; MALE; NEUROMA; PAIN; PAIN MEASUREMENT; PERIPHERAL NERVOUS SYSTEM NEOPLASMS; PROSTHESIS FITTING; REOPERATION; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RISK ASSESSMENT; TIME FACTORS; TREATMENT OUTCOME; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 64249137744     PISSN: 03412695     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00264-007-0466-y     Document Type: Article

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