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Can The Limb Be Saved After Gunshot Injury?
is the limb can be saved in patient with gunshot injury to lower thigh and popliteal fossa with loss of skin soft tissue muscles of the back of lower thigh and segment loss of the neurovascular bundle in addition to comminuted intra-articular fracture of femur condyles
Mon, 1 Sep 2014
Good evening. Well it looks very less likely considering the amount of damage that has been caused by the gun shot. Compromise of the neurovascular bundles is going to make the limb functions impaired as no blood supply reaches the limbs. It still has to be the operating surgeons choice.
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