OBJECTIVES To determine the indications and complications of major limb amputations in a Nigerian hospital. DESIGN A five-year retrospective descriptive study. SETTING National Orthopaedic Hospital, Dala, Kano, Nigeria. PARTICIPANTS Patients who had amputations above the wrist or ankle between January 2006 and December 2010. MAIN OUTCOME MEASURES Indications, complications and mortality...

INTRODUCTION Amputation of the severely ischaemic leg is often done when limb salvage is not possible or the patient is not fit enough for it. It is therefore important to determine the natural history of these amputees as our understanding of this will have significant impact on decision making. The aim of this study was to determine the early and late morbidity and mortality rates and rehabil...

OBJECTIVE To determine trends in the incidence of foot-related hospitalisation and amputation amongst persons with diabetes in Queensland (Australia) between 2005 and 2010 that coincided with changes in state-wide ambulatory diabetic foot-related complication management. METHODS All data from cases admitted for the principal reason of diabetes foot-related hospitalisation or amputation in Que...

The aim of this study was to give a retrospective review of all lower limb amputations performed in the 3 northern provinces of the Netherlands in 1991-1992. Assembled data were compared with the existing information in the National Medical Register (NMR) over the same period. With the participation of all regional hospitals, 473 lower limb amputations from transpelvic to transmetatarsal level ...

The clinical manifestations of 88 children with congenital constriction band syndrome involvement of the hand were reviewed. Seventy-five of these children had evidence of digital or limb amputations, with 235 upper limb amputations and 138 lower limb amputations. In the hand, digital amputations were most common in the index, middle, and ring fingers, whereas in the foot, amputations of the ha...

Landmine explosions cause most of the war injuries in the battlefield. Amputations resulting from severe injuries reveal serious problems despite the improvements in surgery. Bilateral lower limb amputations have more impact than unilateral on social life. Some 29 cases with lower limb amputations due to landmine injuries were treated in the Department of Orthopaedics and Traumatology, Gülhane ...

In the daily work with finger and hand amputees, a hand and finger prosthet­ ist can clearly see which different needs can be present after a finger or partial hand amputation. The importance placed on functional and aesthetic aspects can differ not only from user to user, it also depends heavi­ ly on the clinical situation and the ex­ tent of functional and physical deficits. Especially in the...