Validation of mangled extremity severity score in assessing the need for extremity amputation

Validation of mangled extremity severity score in assessing the need for extremity amputation

INTRODUCTION: The decision to either salvage or amputate a mangled extremity poses great challenge to a surgeon.Different scoring systems were therefore developed to aid orthopaedic surgeons in this decision,eitherto contemplate amputation or proceed to salvage a mangled extremity. Of these scoring...

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Main Authors: B A Okechukwu, O I Akinmokun, G O Enweluzo, S O Giwa
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Wolters Kluwer Medknow Publications 2017-01-01
Series:Nigerian Journal of Medicine
Subjects:
open fracture
mangled limb
amputation
mess score
classification
Online Access:http://www.njmonline.org/article.asp?issn=1115-2613;year=2017;volume=26;issue=2;spage=156;epage=162;aulast=Okechukwu;type=0

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