Osteomyoplastic transtibial amputation: technique and tips.
case_series · Level IV
Where this comes from
- Record sourced from PubMed, PMID 21385373.
- Also identified by DOI 10.1186/1749-799X-6-13 and PMC identifier 3060134.
- Licence recorded as CC BY.
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Abstract
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.
Medical subject headings
- Amputation, Surgical
- Tibia
Anatomy
- tibia