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Osteomyoplastic transtibial amputation: technique and tips

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Description: Treatment of severe lower extremity trauma, diabetic complications, infections, dysvascular limbs, neoplasia, developmental pathology, or other conditions often involves amputation of the involved extremity. However, techniques of lower extremity amputation have largely remained stagnant over decades. This article reports a reproducible technique for transtibial osteomyoplastic amputation.
Osteomyoplastic transtibial amputation: technique and tips Benjamin C Taylor and Attila Poka Journal of Orthopaedic Surgery and Research 2011, 6:13

Type: Reference Material
Author/Contact: Taylor & Poka
Institution: J Orthopaedic Surgery and Research
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Language: English

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Added: Fri Apr 15 2011