نتایج جستجو برای: above elbow amputation

تعداد نتایج: 272233  

2015
Iris A. Otto Moshe Kon Arnold H. Schuurman L. Paul van Minnen Samuel J Lin

BACKGROUND Traumatic arm amputations can be treated with replantation or surgical formalization of the stump with or without subsequent prosthetic fitting. In the literature, many authors suggest the superiority of replantation. This systematic review compared available literature to analyze whether replantation is functionally and psychologically more profitable than formalization and prosthet...

Journal: :Prosthetics and orthotics international 1988
J Stürup H C Thyregod J S Jensen J B Retpen G Boberg E Rasmussen S Jensen

Forty three patients with unilateral traumatic amputations were reviewed as to the use of prostheses and employment consequences of the amputation. Seventeen of 19 below-elbow amputees, and 12 of 24 above-elbow amputees used their prostheses. Non-users compared to users of prostheses were characterized by: 1) Higher level of amputation 2) Non-dominant arm amputation and 3) Younger age at the ti...

Journal: :Journal of hand therapy : official journal of the American Society of Hand Therapists 1998
M Gilin

Functional goals and treatment are the basis for occupational therapy. Following upper extremity amputation patients can benefit significantly from a program that concentrates on setting and achieving functional goals. Few hand therapists have the opportunity to treat a large number of amputees. This case study of treatment of above-elbow amputation discusses the use of an activities of daily l...

Journal: :The Medical journal of Malaysia 1999
S Hashim B J Abdullah V Rajasingam F Moosa

A 17 year old Malay student who is a known case of synovial sarcoma of left elbow (treated with an above elbow amputation) presented with duodenal obstruction. We report an unusual case of gastrointestinal tract metastases from synovial sarcoma. To our knowledge, there is no previous such report in the literature. The computed tomography (CT) and magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) features are de...

Journal: :Prosthetics and orthotics international 1987
M R Wood G A Hunter S G Millstein

One hundred and twenty adult patients were reviewed in whom split skin grafts were applied to the stump following traumatic amputation of the upper limb (44 amputees) or lower limb (76 amputees). The average follow-up period was seven and a half years after initial amputation. There was delay in prosthetic fitting in all patients. Approximately one third of patients complained of occasional min...

2012
Gururajaparasad Chennakeshaviah Sunila Ravishankar Rangaswamy Maggad G. V. Manjunath

Neurofibromas are uncommon benign tumours and are still rarer in intramuscular locations. They are not detected until they cause a significant damage to the neighbouring tissues. We present a case of a giant intramuscular myxoid neurofibroma of the left forearm which eroded the radius and ulna, restricting the movements at the elbow and wrist joints and causing wrist drop resulting in an above ...

Journal: :Artificial limbs 1964
S FISHMAN H W KAY

SHORT stumps have always presented fitting problems in both upperand lower-extremity amputation sites for the obvious reasons of small attachment area and a lack of useful range of motion. In an attempt to alleviate these problems for upper-extremity amputees, Drs. O. Hepp and G. G. Kuhn (1) of Minister, Germany, developed fitting techniques for the below-elbow and the above-elbow amputee, resp...

Journal: :anesthesiology and pain medicine 0
hassan ahmad pennine acute hospitals nhs trust, oldham, uk; pennine acute hospitals nhs trust, oldham, uk. tel: +44-7886556220 manjula yadagiri pennine acute hospitals nhs trust, oldham, uk duncan macrosson pennine acute hospitals nhs trust, oldham, uk amer majeed tameside hospital, ashton-under-lyne, uk

conclusions the brachial plexus block can be performed at different levels in the same patient to achieve desired results, while employing sound anatomical knowledge and adhering to the maximum safe dose limit of the local anesthetic. case presentation we present the case of a 68-year-old gentleman who had brachial plexus block at supraclavicular and interscalene levels as the sole anesthetic f...

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