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Adult Mouse Digit Amputation and Regeneration: A Simple Model to Investigate Mammalian Blastema Formation and Intramembranous Ossification
Published on: July 12, 2019
Pediatric lower extremity amputations
1Department of Orthopaedics, Loyola University Medical Center, Maywood, Illinois 60153.
Clinics in Podiatric Medicine and Surgery
|October 31, 1997
Abstract:
Amputation in children is never undertaken without a great deal of thought. Even in less than optimum circumstances, salvage may be attempted because the patient is a child. This article reviews some of the congenital and acquired disorders that may be treated by amputation. The overlap of syndromes and the medical morbidities are also discussed.
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