Bilateral lower leg replantation venus prosthetic replacement: Long-term outcome of amputation after an occupational railroad accident

Journal of Trauma - Injury, Infection and Critical Care

Volumn 57, Issue 4, 2004, Pages 824-831

  Schmidhammer, Robert ^a,d   Nimmervoll, Roman ^e   Pelinka, Linda E ^a   Huber, Wolfgang ^c   Schrei, Karl ^b   Kroepfl, Albert ^c   Redl, Heinz ^a  

^a FEDERAL RESEARCH AND TRAINING CENTRE FOR FORESTS   (Austria)

^b Austrian Workers' Compensation Board   (Austria)

^c Trauma Hosp Workers' C   (Austria)

^d LUDWIG BOLTZMANN INSTITUTE FOR LUNG VASCULAR RESEARCH   (Austria)

^e NONE

Author keywords

Amputation; NISSSA; Prosthetic replacement; Replantation

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CASE REPORT; CLINICAL EXAMINATION; COMPARATIVE STUDY; EVALUATION; FOLLOW UP; GAIT; HEALTH CARE; HUMAN; LEG AMPUTATION; LEG INJURY; LEG PROSTHESIS; LIMB REPLANTATION; PHYSIOTHERAPY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PSYCHOSOCIAL CARE; RAILWAY; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; SOCIAL PSYCHOLOGY; TRAFFIC ACCIDENT; TREATMENT OUTCOME; WHEELCHAIR; WORK;

ACTIVITIES OF DAILY LIVING; AMPUTATION, TRAUMATIC; ARTIFICIAL LIMBS; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; GAIT; HUMANS; INJURY SEVERITY SCORE; LEG INJURIES; PATIENT SATISFACTION; PHYSICAL THERAPY MODALITIES; PROSTHESIS FITTING; QUALITY OF LIFE; REPLANTATION; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RISK ASSESSMENT; SAMPLING STUDIES; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 7244234578     PISSN: 00225282     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/01.TA.0000075521.52640.92     Document Type: Article

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