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Alternatives to amputation.

J Lendrum
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Alternatives to conventional skin flap cover for limb wounds extend both the number and type of defects which can now be closed with reconstruction of both form and function for patients who might otherwise come to amputation. The old adage that where a sinus leads to dead or foreign material it can only be closed after removal of that dead or foreign material is no longer true. The number of patients coming to above-knee amputation after prosthetic replacement of the knee joint could be reduced by muscle flap cover of exposed arthroplasty prostheses.

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J Lendrum. 1980. Alternatives to amputation.. https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/7377695/

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