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Limb Salvage Versus Amputation: The Dilemma

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The management of traumatic, limb-threatening injuries to the extremities remains a controversial topic in the orthopaedic literature, especially by treatment of patients with extensive tissue damage and loss. The decision to amputate or perform limb salvage of a severely injured extremity remains a surgical dilemma. Multiple scoring systems have been shown not to be good predictors of limb amputation or salvage.The chapter will focus the decision in these challenging conditions and protocols of functional surgical reconstruction by treatment limbs at the risk.

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  1. Department of Orthopedic Surgery, Faculty of Medicine Technion, Israel Institute of Technology, Ziv Medical Center, Str. Rambam 1, 13100, Zefat, Israel

    Alexander Lerner

  2. Department of Orthopedic Surgery, Israel Institute of Technology, 9602, Haifa, 31096, Israel

    Nicolas Daniel Reis

  3. Department of Orthopedic Surgery, Faculty of Medicine Technion, Israel Institute of Technology, Rambam Medical Center, Haaliyah Street 8, 31096, Haifa, Bat Galim, Israel

    Michael Soudry

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Lerner, A., Reis, N.D., Soudry, M. (2011). Limb Salvage Versus Amputation: The Dilemma. In: Lerner, A., Soudry, M. (eds) Armed Conflict Injuries to the Extremities. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-16155-1_18

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