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Wheeless' Textbook of Orthopaedics

Wedge resection of amputation stumps. A valuable salvage procedure


Hadden W. Marks R. Murdoch G. Stewart C. Journal of Bone & Joint Surgery - British Volume. 69(2):306-8, 1987 Mar. We describe the technique of wedge resection for revision of an amputation stump, and report the results of this at below-knee level in 57 patients with peripheral vascular disease; healing occurred in 42 of these (74%).



Original Text by Clifford R. Wheeless, III, MD.