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Banza LN et al. - Results revealed that in this hospital the wound infection rate was 38 %, the wound breakdown rate was 11 % and the general wound sepsis rate was around 1%. More complications were observed following through-knee amputation. The authors had noticed fewer complications when the surgery was performed by a consultant than when it was performed by a junior trainee.

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