Clinical Cases Clinical case 2
 
Wet gangrene of the foot and of the lower third of the leg with cellulitis up to the middle third - Patient in septic shock
Sent with urgent indication for thigh amputation
Urgent surgical intervention
Note how the immediate result is not satisfactory (tissues painful, ischemic)
Transluminal re-vascularisation (PTA) up to foot (next day)
Result a few days after re-vascularisation
Result after skin graft taken from thigh

Last Update: 23 Jun 2006