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During the past eight years, we performed 312 lower-extremity amputations for ischemia. Amputation requiring no prosthesis was achieved in 31% of patients, knee joint preservation in 72%, and overall primary amputation healing in 75%. Amputation mortality was 6%. The use of prior arterial reconstruction, careful wound care, and willingness to accept nonhealing of trial amputations were important factors in obtaining the most distal possible healed amputation. An accurate evaluation of the impact of new methods of selecting amputation level and evaluating amputation results can only be achieved by a report of the total institutional amputation experience, not by reports of a single type of amputation.
J M Porter, and
G M Baur, and
L M Taylor
January 1969,
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J M Porter, and
G M Baur, and
L M Taylor
October 1952,
Southern medical journal,
J M Porter, and
G M Baur, and
L M Taylor
October 1997,
Clinics in podiatric medicine and surgery,
J M Porter, and
G M Baur, and
L M Taylor
January 1979,
Advances in surgery,
J M Porter, and
G M Baur, and
L M Taylor
June 1958,
A.M.A. archives of surgery,
J M Porter, and
G M Baur, and
L M Taylor
January 1954,
Clinical orthopaedics,
J M Porter, and
G M Baur, and
L M Taylor
July 1947,
Bulletin. Chicago Medical Society,
J M Porter, and
G M Baur, and
L M Taylor
July 1972,
The Orthopedic clinics of North America,
J M Porter, and
G M Baur, and
L M Taylor
August 1990,
Journal of the American Geriatrics Society,
J M Porter, and
G M Baur, and
L M Taylor
December 1967,
Industrial medicine & surgery,
