Amputation: surgical practice and patient management

Amputation: Surgical Practice and Patient Management provides a complete text for good surgical technique for amputation and sensible management of amputees. The editors have brought together a team in association with the 'International Society of Prosthetics and Orthotics' of internation...

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Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Oxford [u.a.] Butterworth-Heinemann 1996
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Summary:Amputation: Surgical Practice and Patient Management provides a complete text for good surgical technique for amputation and sensible management of amputees. The editors have brought together a team in association with the 'International Society of Prosthetics and Orthotics' of internationally respected surgeons, orthotists and prosthetists to produce a book aimed at the promotion of good amputation practice throughout the world. Written for general, orthopaedic and vascular surgeons, Amputation: Surgical Practice and Patient Management provides good advice on how to avoid amputation where at all possible. Where no alternative exists, the surgical techniques for all types of amputation in the upper and lower limbs are described clearly, along with relevant biomechanics and prosthetics.
Physical Description:VIII, 391 S. Ill., graph. Darst.
ISBN:0750608439
0750623772

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