Self-surgery: removal of ankle surgical implants--A case report
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Treatment of Ankle Osteoarthritis with Total Ankle Replacement Through a Lateral Transfibular Approach
Published on: January 24, 2018
K Moholkar1, J Krishnan, B Sampson
1Flinders Medical Centre, South Australia. moholkar@esatclear.ie
Medgenmed : Medscape General Medicine
|January 11, 2000
Abstract:
Self-surgery is rare, but numerous cases of self-mutilation are reported in the literature (eg, castration, enucleation of an eye, and amputation of a limb).[1] We have found no previous reports in the literature of a patient who has performed self-surgery to remove fracture fixation implants.