An unusual case of frost bite autoamputation of toes

BACKGROUND: We report a case of a 15 year old young female who suffered autoamputation of left mid foot and four digits of right foot following repeated application of snow to relieve the pain in her frost bitten feet. CASE PRESENTATION: The sociodemographic background, cause, resulting injury and s...

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Autores principales: Wani, Adil Hafeez, Mohsin, Mir, Darzi, Mohammed Ashraf, Zaroo, Mohammed Inam, Bashir, Sheikh Adil, Zargar, Haroon Rashid, Rasool , Altaf, Bijli, Mohammed Akram, Dar, Hameedullah, Farooq, Peerzada Omar, Ahmed, Sheikh Tariq
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Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2008
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Case Report
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2615432/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/19077326
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1757-1626-1-398
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author Wani, Adil Hafeez
Mohsin, Mir
Darzi, Mohammed Ashraf
Zaroo, Mohammed Inam
Bashir, Sheikh Adil
Zargar, Haroon Rashid
Rasool , Altaf
Bijli, Mohammed Akram
Dar, Hameedullah
Farooq, Peerzada Omar
Ahmed, Sheikh Tariq
author_facet Wani, Adil Hafeez
Mohsin, Mir
Darzi, Mohammed Ashraf
Zaroo, Mohammed Inam
Bashir, Sheikh Adil
Zargar, Haroon Rashid
Rasool , Altaf
Bijli, Mohammed Akram
Dar, Hameedullah
Farooq, Peerzada Omar
Ahmed, Sheikh Tariq
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description BACKGROUND: We report a case of a 15 year old young female who suffered autoamputation of left mid foot and four digits of right foot following repeated application of snow to relieve the pain in her frost bitten feet. CASE PRESENTATION: The sociodemographic background, cause, resulting injury and subsequent management are discussed. CONCLUSION: Such injuries are relatively rare but awareness of the risk of this type of injury is important.
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spelling pubmed-26154322009-01-09 An unusual case of frost bite autoamputation of toes Wani, Adil Hafeez Mohsin, Mir Darzi, Mohammed Ashraf Zaroo, Mohammed Inam Bashir, Sheikh Adil Zargar, Haroon Rashid Rasool , Altaf Bijli, Mohammed Akram Dar, Hameedullah Farooq, Peerzada Omar Ahmed, Sheikh Tariq Cases J Case Report BACKGROUND: We report a case of a 15 year old young female who suffered autoamputation of left mid foot and four digits of right foot following repeated application of snow to relieve the pain in her frost bitten feet. CASE PRESENTATION: The sociodemographic background, cause, resulting injury and subsequent management are discussed. CONCLUSION: Such injuries are relatively rare but awareness of the risk of this type of injury is important. BioMed Central 2008-12-16 /pmc/articles/PMC2615432/ /pubmed/19077326 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1757-1626-1-398 Text en Copyright © 2008 Wani et al; licensee BioMed Central Ltd. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0 This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License ( (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0) ), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
spellingShingle Case Report
Wani, Adil Hafeez
Mohsin, Mir
Darzi, Mohammed Ashraf
Zaroo, Mohammed Inam
Bashir, Sheikh Adil
Zargar, Haroon Rashid
Rasool , Altaf
Bijli, Mohammed Akram
Dar, Hameedullah
Farooq, Peerzada Omar
Ahmed, Sheikh Tariq
An unusual case of frost bite autoamputation of toes
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title_full An unusual case of frost bite autoamputation of toes
title_fullStr An unusual case of frost bite autoamputation of toes
title_full_unstemmed An unusual case of frost bite autoamputation of toes
title_short An unusual case of frost bite autoamputation of toes
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topic Case Report
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2615432/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/19077326
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1757-1626-1-398
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