Grade IV frostbite requiring bilateral below knee amputations: a case report

A rare case of grade IV frostbite is presented resulting in bilateral below knee amputations. This case highlights the importance of early versus late amputation as well as the importance of close collaboration between the rehabilitation, surgical, psychosocial, and public health disciplines in this...

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Autor principal: Ramdass, Michael J
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Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2009
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Research article
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2827043/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/20181167
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1757-1626-2-6635
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description A rare case of grade IV frostbite is presented resulting in bilateral below knee amputations. This case highlights the importance of early versus late amputation as well as the importance of close collaboration between the rehabilitation, surgical, psychosocial, and public health disciplines in this rare and challenging problem that still may be encountered in the United Kingdom.
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spelling pubmed-28270432010-02-24 Grade IV frostbite requiring bilateral below knee amputations: a case report Ramdass, Michael J Cases J Research article A rare case of grade IV frostbite is presented resulting in bilateral below knee amputations. This case highlights the importance of early versus late amputation as well as the importance of close collaboration between the rehabilitation, surgical, psychosocial, and public health disciplines in this rare and challenging problem that still may be encountered in the United Kingdom. BioMed Central 2009-04-08 /pmc/articles/PMC2827043/ /pubmed/20181167 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1757-1626-2-6635 Text en Copyright ©2009 Ramdass; licensee Cases Network Ltd. licensee BioMed Central Ltd. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0 This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
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Grade IV frostbite requiring bilateral below knee amputations: a case report
title Grade IV frostbite requiring bilateral below knee amputations: a case report
title_full Grade IV frostbite requiring bilateral below knee amputations: a case report
title_fullStr Grade IV frostbite requiring bilateral below knee amputations: a case report
title_full_unstemmed Grade IV frostbite requiring bilateral below knee amputations: a case report
title_short Grade IV frostbite requiring bilateral below knee amputations: a case report
title_sort grade iv frostbite requiring bilateral below knee amputations: a case report
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2827043/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/20181167
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