- Amputations in the Diabetic Patient - Above the Knee Amputation: - AKA prosthetics - Below Knee Amputation: - amputation following fractures of the tibia - pediatric BKA: - BKA prosthetics - prosthetic feet - Foot and Ankle Amputation - Syme's Amputation - Transmetatarsal Amputation - Chopart Amputations - Pediatric Amputations - Upper Extremity Amputations: - amputation of the finger and hand: - above-elbow amputation - below-elbow amputation - upper extremity prosthetics: - wrist disarticulations
- Mangled Extremity Scoring: - references: - Amputations and Artificial Limbs--Symposium: Limb Salvage Versus Amputation: Preliminary Results of the Mangled Extremity Severity Score. - The Severely Traumatized Lower Limb: Reconstruction versus Amputation--Symposium: Vascular Injury Associated With Fracture-Dislocations of the Lower Extremity.
- Links: - Civil War Medicine
Wound Healing and Basic Science References: - Outcome in 282 lower extremity amputations. Knee salvage and survival. - A multivariate analysis of determinants of wound healing in patients after amputation for peripheral vascular disease. - The role of non-invasive vascular studies in determining levels of amputation. - The role of non-invasive vascular studies in determining levels of amputation. - Doppler-determined segmental pressures and wound-healing in amputations for vascular disease. - Prediction of amputation wound healing. Roles of Doppler ultrasound and digit photoplethysmography. - The blood supply to the skin of the leg: a post-mortem investigation. - The assessment of skin viability using fluorescein angiography prior to amputation. - Transcutaneous oxygen and carbon dioxide pressure monitoring to determine severity of limb ischemia and to predict surgical outcome. - Prospective comparison of noninvasive techniques for amputation level selection. - Muscle blood flow after amputation with special reference to the influence of the amputation level. Assessed by 133 xenon and histamine. An animal experiment. - Segmental transcutaneous measurements of PO2 in patients requiring below-the-knee amputation for peripheral vascular insufficiency. - The assessment of skin viability using fluorescein angiography prior to amputation. - Predictive value of distal perfusion pressure in the healing of amputation of the digits and the forefoot. - Transcutaneous oxygen tension measurement in peripheral vascular disease. - Oxygen-derived free radicals in postischemic tissue injury. - Arterial systolic pressures in critical ischemia. - Dry ice cryoamputation: a twelve-year experience. - Improvement of amputation level by lower extremity revascularization. - Level selection in leg amputation for arterial occlusive disease: a comparison of clinical evaluation and skin perfusion pressure. - Salvage of a functional lower limb in diabetic patients after amputation. Jacobs RL. Instructional Course Lectures. 42:159-67, 1993. - Surgical techniques for conserving tissue and function in lower-limb amputation for trauma, infection, and vascular disease. - Risk factors for failed healing in amputation for vascular disease. A prospective, consecutive study of 177 cases. - Improvement of amputation level by lower extremity revascularization.
- Reduction of Infection in Amputations: - Prophylactic antibiotics in amputation of the lower extremity for ischemia. A placebo-controlled, randomized trial of cefoxitin. - Reduction in amputation stump infection by antiseptic pre-operative preparation. - Prophylactic antibiotics in amputation of the lower extremity for ischemia. A placebo-controlled, randomized trial of cefoxitin. - Lower extremity amputation: open versus closed. - Short-term cefotaxime prophylaxis reduces the failure rate in lower limb amputations [published erratum appears in Acta Orthop Scand 1991 Oct;62(5):509.
- Innovative Ideas and Techniques: - A new operation for the prevention and treatment of amputation neuromas. - A new technique of open amputation: use of the rolled flap. - A 50-cm fillet flap for preservation of maximal lower extremity residual limb length. - Heterotopic Ossification Following Traumatic and Combat-Related Amputations
