A house surgeon in the Montreal General Hospital underwent amputation of the distal phalanx to stop the spread of an infection.
A study found that in 2010, 22.8% of patients undergoing amputation of a lower extremity in the United States were readmitted to the hospital within 30 days.
The C-Leg is designed for use on people who have undergone transfemoral amputation, or amputation above the knee.
The condition is at its heart an "erotic fantasy," they wrote, with two components: "undergoing amputation of a limb, and subsequently overachieving despite a handicap."
As a result of a motorcycle accident in 2007, had to undergo high-femoral amputation of her left leg.
In his later years, he had to undergo amputation of his leg due to a knee injury sustained earlier in his life.
In 2009, Simon underwent amputation of his right leg below the knee and his left foot after an infection led to blood poisoning.
In the steerage there were nine who had been dressed, and four in their hammocks who had undergone amputation of the arm or leg.
Not surprisingly, patients who undergo amputation have lower local-recurrence rates than patients who undergo limb-salvage procedures.
A study of two different surgical techniques found that 16% of those who underwent joint amputation developed lameness while only 5% who underwent bone amputation did.