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| Title |
Surgical revision for stump problems after traumatic above-ankle amputations of the lower extremity
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| Published in |
BMC Musculoskeletal Disorders, March 2015
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| DOI | 10.1186/s12891-015-0508-3 |
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| Authors |
Kemin Liu, Tao Tang, Anqin Wang, Shouchang Cui |
| Abstract |
Stump problems (SPs) secondary to traumatic lower limb amputation had a crucial influence on amputees' ability to return to living and work. The purpose of this study was to investigate the surgical management strategies of the SPs after above-ankle amputation of the lower limb secondary to trauma. A cohort of clinical cases, who were troubled by SPs after above-ankle amputation following trauma, had undergone revision surgery of the stump and was analyzed retrospectively. Various factors were noted like sex, unilateral or bilateral, amputation type, and causes of trauma. Different SPs like excess soft tissue (where a considerable amount of soft tissue interposed between the rigid elements which hindered the fitting of a prosthesis), scar, ulcers, neuromas, and bone spurs were taken as dependent variables. The relationship between factors and SPs was analyzed. A total of 80 stumps were treated surgically. The frequency of excess soft tissue in above-knee amputation cases was higher than that in below-knee amputation (p = 0.007). Bone spur occurred more frequently in the unilateral amputation than in bilateral ones (p = 0.018). There was a significant difference in the ADL scores between admission and discharge (p = 0.000). Stump problems secondary to traumatic lower limb amputation had crucial influence on amputees' ability to return to living and work, appropriate evaluation and timely surgical revision showed excellent results. |
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| Country | Count | As % |
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| Germany | 1 | 50% |
| Unknown | 1 | 50% |
Demographic breakdown
| Type | Count | As % |
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| Practitioners (doctors, other healthcare professionals) | 1 | 50% |
| Members of the public | 1 | 50% |
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Geographical breakdown
| Country | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Benin | 1 | 1% |
| Unknown | 80 | 99% |
Demographic breakdown
| Readers by professional status | Count | As % |
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| Student > Master | 16 | 20% |
| Student > Bachelor | 15 | 19% |
| Student > Doctoral Student | 8 | 10% |
| Student > Postgraduate | 8 | 10% |
| Other | 7 | 9% |
| Other | 13 | 16% |
| Unknown | 14 | 17% |
| Readers by discipline | Count | As % |
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| Medicine and Dentistry | 35 | 43% |
| Engineering | 7 | 9% |
| Nursing and Health Professions | 6 | 7% |
| Social Sciences | 4 | 5% |
| Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology | 2 | 2% |
| Other | 11 | 14% |
| Unknown | 16 | 20% |
Attention Score in Context
This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 10. This is our high-level measure of the quality and quantity of online attention that it has received. This Attention Score, as well as the ranking and number of research outputs shown below, was calculated when the research output was last mentioned on 09 March 2015.
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#3,122,970
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#634
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#39,554
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Outputs of similar age from BMC Musculoskeletal Disorders
#12
of 69 outputs
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