A contemporary comparative analysis of immediate postoperative prosthesis placement following below-knee amputation

Annals of Vascular Surgery

Volumn 27, Issue 8, 2013, Pages 1146-1153

  Ali, Mujtaba M ^a   Loretz, Lorraine ^a   Shea, Art ^b   Poorvu, Eli ^a   Robinson, William P ^a   Schanzer, Andres ^a   Messina, Louis M ^a   Baril, Donald T ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUSETTS MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

^b New England Orthotic and Prosthetic Systems   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTIBIOTIC AGENT;

ABSCESS; ANEMIA; BELOW KNEE AMPUTATION; BLOOD TRANSFUSION; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COMORBIDITY; CONFERENCE PAPER; CONGESTIVE HEART FAILURE; CONGESTIVE HEART FAILURE EXACERBATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEEP VEIN THROMBOSIS; DISEASE EXACERBATION; FEMALE; GANGRENE; HEART INFARCTION; HUMAN; INFECTION; LIMB INJURY; LIMB ISCHEMIA; MALE; MEDICAL RECORD; MOBILIZATION; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSTHESIS; RESPIRATORY TRACT INFECTION; SYSTEMIC DISEASE; TREATMENT OUTCOME; URINE RETENTION; WOUND COMPLICATION; WOUND DEHISCENCE; WOUND INFECTION;

AGED; AMPUTATION; ARTIFICIAL LIMBS; CHI-SQUARE DISTRIBUTION; COMPRESSION BANDAGES; EARLY AMBULATION; FEMALE; HUMANS; LEG; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PATIENT SELECTION; PERIPHERAL ARTERIAL DISEASE; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; PROSTHESIS FITTING; REOPERATION; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RISK FACTORS; SURGICAL WOUND DEHISCENCE; TIME FACTORS; TIME-TO-TREATMENT; TREATMENT OUTCOME; WOUND HEALING;

EID: 84886098714     PISSN: 08905096     EISSN: 16155947     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.avsg.2012.10.031     Document Type: Conference Paper

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