Evaluation of Mangled Extremity Severity Score (MESS) as a Predictor of Lower Limb Amputation in Children with Trauma - Concepedia

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Evaluation of Mangled Extremity Severity Score (MESS) as a Predictor of Lower Limb Amputation in Children with Trauma

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2012

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Saba Behdad, M R Rafiei, Hadi Taheri, Samin Behdad, Mahdi Mohammadzadeh, Gelare Kiani, Mehrdad Hosseinpour

European Journal of Pediatric Surgery

Abstract

We assumed that patients with a high risk of amputation can be identified early, and specific measures can be implemented immediately by using MESS with threshold of 6.5.