Until now, how amputation is translated into gene activation has been like magic.
Combined with reduced blood flow, neuropathy in the feet increases the chance of foot ulcers and eventual limb amputation.
Management of the septic foot is a challenge in diabetic patients, and this condition often progresses to amputation in an effort to alleviate otherwise incurable infection.
Because a synovial sarcoma is a very aggressive and lethal malignancy, prompt and radical surgery even amputation is recommended, and subsequent radiotherapy or chemotherapy may be used in conjunction with surgery.
The kinds of trauma and health problems that now cause amputation, from car accidents and fires to cancer or diabetic peripheral vascular disease, would no longer cause irreparable damage.
I found myself, during the entrapment scene as well as the climactic amputation scene, just watching the movie as a really well told story …very well made and very authentic as well;
