Amputations
Surgical removal of a limb or part of a limb — most often the toes, foot or lower leg — when tissue is irretrievably damaged by peripheral vascular disease, uncontrolled diabetes, severe trauma or aggressive infection.
Symptoms
Non-healing ulcers, blackened or gangrenous tissue, foul-smelling discharge, rest pain in the limb that is worse at night, and progressive numbness or coldness.
Recent advances in management
Every effort is made at limb salvage first — endovascular revascularisation, aggressive wound care and negative-pressure therapy. When amputation is unavoidable, meticulous tissue-sparing techniques, myoplastic closure and early prosthetic fitting return most patients to independent walking within weeks.
Operative & case images
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