Quality of life and complications in lower limb amputees in Tanzania: results from a pilot study

• Main Authors: Jeremy Shaw (Author), Sravya Challa (Author), Devin Conway (Author), Max Liu (Author), Billy Haonga (Author), Edmund Eliezer (Author), Saam Morshed (Author), David Shearer (Author)
• Format: Book
• Published: Elsevier, 2018-03-01T00:00:00Z.
• Subjects: article
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Background: The most common reason for lower extremity amputation in developing countries is trauma, which is an increasingly recognised global epidemic. Despite the rising rates of traumatic injury and the level of disability experienced by amputees, there are few data focusing on this specific pop...