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Twenty-two patients who had diabetes mellitus and had needed an amputation for gangrene in an upper extremity at an average age of fifty-one years were identified and followed. The results of amputation in an upper extremity were unsatisfactory - the site of the initial amputation healed in only two of the twenty-two patients In the remaining twenty patients, a total of sixty-three additional operations were performed on an upper extremity, and five of the twenty patients died before the wound had healed.

Langue : ANGLAIS

Identifiant basis : 1989084497