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The utility of scores in the decision to salvage or amputation in severely injured limbs
The decision to amputate or salvage a severely injured limb can be very challenging to the trauma surgeon. A misjudgment will result in either an unnecessary amputation of a valuable limb or a secondary amputation after failed salvage. Numerous scores have been proposed to provide guidelines to the...
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Medknow Publications
2008
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| Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2740356/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/19753223 http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/0019-5413.43371 |