Forequarter amputation is amputation of the arm, scapula and clavicle. It is usually performed as a last resort to remove a cancer, but decreasingly so as limb-sparing operations improve.[1]
^Malawer, Martin M.; Sugarbaker, Paul H. (2001), "Chapter 17 - Forequarter Amputation" (PDF), in Malawer, Martin M.; Sugarbaker, Paul H. (eds.), Musculoskeletal Cancer Surgery Treatment of Sarcomas and Allied Diseases, Kluwer Academic Publishers, pp. 289–298, ISBN 978-0-7923-6394-1
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