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Amputation is ultimately required in 5 to 10 percent of patients with sarcoma of the limbs, usually after previous limb-salvage operations. 50 In such cases, major amputations (forequarter ...

Faced with the urgency of a forequarter amputation at her shoulder, Ainscough decided the medical options she was offered were “not good enough” (per Wayback Machine) and ultimately chose the ...

He quickly determined that J needed a forequarter amputation to remove his infected shoulder. The field hospital at which he was working had just one pint of blood and limited supplies, and Nott ...

SUTD, together with Tan Tock Seng Hospital, developed a novel 3D printed non-metallic self-locking prosthetic arm for a patient with a forequarter amputation - it is more comfortable, flexible and ...

The only way to save him was to perform what's called a forequarter amputation - which means removing the collar bone and the shoulder blade. The doctor, David Nott, knew of only one surgeon in ...

British surgeon David Nott tells us how he carried out an amputation in the Democratic Republic of the Congo via advice given in a text message The first thing I realised when I saw J was that he ...

David Nott knew that the 16-year-old boy needed a forequarter amputation removing his left shoulder blade after his arm was bitten off by a hippopotamus while fishing.

"The cellulitis initially responded to broad-spectrum intravenous antibiotics but rapidly deteriorated 48 hours later, leading to a forequarter amputation with radical mastectomy and chest wall ...

Add articles to your saved list and come back to them any time. A British surgeon volunteering in the Democratic Republic of Congo used text message instructions to perform a life-saving arm ...

Extensive local disease in the 10-month-old female with sarcomatous-appearing fibrous hamartoma of infancy necessitated forequarter amputation. In summary, ...

Retired South Shields train driver had ‘spare parts’ arm amputation that saved him from cancer David Brown had been in pain so bad due to a kind of sarcoma that even morphine didn't help Share ...