The Military Extremity Trauma Amputation/Limb Salvage (METALS) study: Outcomes of amputation versus limb salvage following major lower-extremity Trauma

Journal of Bone and Joint Surgery

Volumn 95, Issue 2, 2013, Pages 138-145

  Doukas, William C ^e   Hayda, Roman A ^e   Frisch, H Michael ^a   Andersen, Romney C ^b   Mazurek, Michael T ^e   Ficke, James R ^c   Keeling, John J ^b   Pasquina, Paul F ^b   Wain, Harold J ^b   Carlini, Anthony R ^d   MacKenzie, Ellen J ^d  

^a Mission Hospitals Incorporated   (United States)

^b WALTER REED ARMY MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^c SAN ANTONIO MILITARY MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^d JOHNS HOPKINS BLOOMBERG SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

^e Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health ^*

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADL DISABILITY; ADULT; AFGHANISTAN; ARM MOVEMENT; ARTICLE; BATTLE INJURY; BONE GRAFT; CENTER FOR EPIDEMIOLOGIC STUDIES DEPRESSION SCALE; CHECKLIST; CHRONIC PAIN; CHRONIC PAIN GRADE SCALE; COHORT ANALYSIS; COMPARTMENT SYNDROME; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEPRESSION; FEMALE; FREE TISSUE GRAFT; FUNCTIONAL ASSESSMENT; HAND FUNCTION; HUMAN; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; IRAQ; LEG AMPUTATION; LEG INJURY; LEISURE; LIMB SALVAGE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; NERVE INJURY; NERVE REGENERATION; NERVE SURGERY; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PAFFENBARGER PHYSICAL ACTIVITY QUESTIONNAIRE; PAIN ASSESSMENT; POSTTRAUMATIC STRESS DISORDER; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PSYCHOLOGICAL RATING SCALE; PTSD CHECKLIST; QUESTIONNAIRE; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; REVASCULARIZATION; SCHOOL; SHORT MUSCULOSKELETAL FUNCTION ASSESSMENT QUESTIONNAIRE; SOLDIER; SPORT; WORK DISABILITY; WORK RESUMPTION;

EID: 84873614885     PISSN: 00219355     EISSN: 15351386     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2106/JBJS.K.00734     Document Type: Article

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