A salvage strategy for heel pad degloving injury: A case report

CASE: A 50-year-old female experienced a crush injury to the foot resulting in open degloving of her heel pad. This study details a surgical strategy to achieve healing and limb salvage. CONCLUSION: Heel pad injuries with degloving are difficult to salvage and have a poor prognosis. Amputation is of...

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Autores principales: Cantrell, William A., Lawrenz, Joshua M., Vallier, Heather A.
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Wolters Kluwer Health 2020
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Case Report
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7953521/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/33937645
http://dx.doi.org/10.1097/OI9.0000000000000007
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description CASE: A 50-year-old female experienced a crush injury to the foot resulting in open degloving of her heel pad. This study details a surgical strategy to achieve healing and limb salvage. CONCLUSION: Heel pad injuries with degloving are difficult to salvage and have a poor prognosis. Amputation is often the only therapeutic option, unless part of the blood supply to the heel pad is intact, rendering limb salvage a possibility.
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spelling pubmed-79535212021-04-29 A salvage strategy for heel pad degloving injury: A case report Cantrell, William A. Lawrenz, Joshua M. Vallier, Heather A. OTA Int Case Report CASE: A 50-year-old female experienced a crush injury to the foot resulting in open degloving of her heel pad. This study details a surgical strategy to achieve healing and limb salvage. CONCLUSION: Heel pad injuries with degloving are difficult to salvage and have a poor prognosis. Amputation is often the only therapeutic option, unless part of the blood supply to the heel pad is intact, rendering limb salvage a possibility. Wolters Kluwer Health 2020-09-13 /pmc/articles/PMC7953521/ /pubmed/33937645 http://dx.doi.org/10.1097/OI9.0000000000000007 Text en Copyright © 2018 The Authors. Published by Wolters Kluwer Health, Inc. on behalf of the Orthopaedic Trauma Association. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nd/4.0 This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NoDerivatives License 4.0, which allows for redistribution, commercial and non-commercial, as long as it is passed along unchanged and in whole, with credit to the author. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nd/4.0
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