Type of incision for below knee amputation

Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews

Volumn 2014, Issue 4, 2014, Pages

  Tisi, Paul V ^a   Than, Mary M ^b  

^a BEDFORD HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

^b BEDFORD HOSPITAL NHS TRUST   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMPUTATION; BELOW KNEE AMPUTATION; DIABETIC FOOT; FAILED PRIMARY STUMP HEALING; GANGRENE; GUILLOTINE AMPUTATION; HUMAN; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; LEG ISCHEMIA; LONG POSTERIOR FLAP AMPUTATION; MOBILIZATION; ONE STAGE AMPUTATION; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; POSTOPERATIVE INFECTION; POSTOPERATIVE WOUND NECROSIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REOPERATION; REVIEW; SAGITTAL FLAP AMPUTATION; SKEW FLAP AMPUTATION; SKIN FLAP; SKIN INCISION; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE; SYSTEMATIC REVIEW; TREATMENT OUTCOME; TWO STAGE AMPUTATION; WOUND HEALING; COMPLICATION; ISCHEMIA; LEG; META ANALYSIS; PROCEDURES; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL (TOPIC); SURGICAL FLAPS; VASCULARIZATION;

AMPUTATION; DIABETIC FOOT; GANGRENE; HUMANS; ISCHEMIA; LEG; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIALS AS TOPIC; REOPERATION; SURGICAL FLAPS; TREATMENT OUTCOME; WOUND HEALING;

EID: 84961181095     PISSN: 14651858     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/14651858.CD003749.pub3     Document Type: Review

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