The phrase "amputated extremity" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used in medical contexts to refer to a limb or part of a limb that has been surgically removed.
Example: "The patient was fitted with a prosthetic device to replace the amputated extremity."
Alternatives: "removed limb" or "severed limb".
The dispatch criteria for HEMS in Japan included shock, long-distance transportation of critical patients, swift transportation due to requirement of special care, such as for burns, polytrauma, amputated extremity or need for emergency care by a physician at the scene.
As horrified as I was by the descriptions of the injuries sustained by the passengers of the bus that crashed in the Bronx on Saturday, I was no less shocked, as well as dismayed, by your reporting of a surgeon at Jacobi Hospital (where I did my pediatric training) who sent an iPhone photo of an amputated extremity to his wife.
Nevertheless the major accommodation factor of amputated extremity segments is a careful fulfilment of vascular anastomosis.
Finally, due to the technical limitation of baPWV measurement, patients with atrial fibrillation or amputated extremity were excluded.
However, it is possible that motor imagery elicits a response similar to visually mediated relief since, when closing their eyes, subjects likely pictured their amputated extremity moving.
17– 19 In a case series of four patients with unilateral upper-limb amputations, Ramachandran reported that watching an assistant wiggle the fingers of the hand that corresponded to the amputated extremity evoked the same movement in their phantom limb.
When blood stopped flowing to his lower extremities, doctors amputated both feet.
Another and recurring problem is whether it is safe to use bone that is not involved in the disease from an extremity that is amputated for a malignant bone tumor.
We have used bone from the tibia in an extremity that was amputated for liposarcoma of the femur without any complication, but a medical-legal question of considerable importance is raised here, for which it is difficult to obtain any authoritative answer.
In adults, about 15percentnt. of the affected lower extremities should be amputated; the stumps may then be closed without drainage and will heal.
All of the skin samples were obtained from extremities that had been amputated due to severe skin ulceration.
