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Extremity Reconstruction

Extremity reconstruction surgery can be life-changing for people whose hands, arms or legs have been affected by cancer, an infection, a traumatic injury, congenital (birth) defect, or other ...
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Evaluation of quality of life in patients treated with resection and reconstruction of the upper or lower limb for bone sarcomas.

Antitumor activity of pemetrexed (Pem) in second-line advanced/metastatic osteosarcomas: A multicenter phase II study. Background: Patients treated with limb salvage surgery for bone sarcomas of the ...
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Intensive exercise may preserve bone mass of the upper limbs in spinal cord injured males but does not retard demineralisation of the lower body

Study design: Cross-sectional study comparing a group of active spinal cord injured (SCI) males carefully matched for age, height, and weight with active able-bodied male controls. Objectives: To ...
Arizona Daily Sun

Flagstaff Bone and Joint adds hand and upper extremity surgeon

Fellowship-trained hand and upper extremity surgeon Derek B. Smith, MD, will begin working for Flagstaff Bone and Joint on July 1. Smith will be available to see patients at the Flagstaff (525 N.
Medscape

Management of Upper Extremity Deep-Vein Thrombosis Reviewed

March 14, 2011 — Anticoagulation therapy should be started promptly for upper extremity deep-vein thrombosis (DVT), according to a clinical practice review of upper extremity DVT published in the ...