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Damage control for devastating pelvic and extremity injuries
S M Henry1, P Tornetta, T M Scalea
1Department of Emergency Medicine, SUNY, Health Science Center at Brooklyn, USA.
The Surgical Clinics of North America
|August 1, 1997
Abstract:
This article focuses on some general principles of care and then discusses devastating pelvic injury secondary to both blunt and penetrating trauma. The authors describe the current approach to the mangled extremity and discuss indications for primary amputation.