Amputated Foot

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  Taiwan Man Soaks Feet In Dry Ice For 10 Hours In Shocking Insurance Scam, Ends Up Losing Both Feet

  A Taiwanese man lost both feet after freezing them in dry ice for 10 hours to fake an accident and claim insurance. The scheme, involving a friend, failed and led to criminal charges and social media outrage.

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  China Boy, 4, Loses Finger After Father Takes Him To Foot Massage Parlour For Nail Infection

  A four-year-old boy in China had to have his finger amputated after his father took him to a foot massage parlour to treat a fungal infection in his nail.

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  Actor Lokendra Singh's Leg Amputated Because Of Gangrene. "Wish I Had Taken Care," He Says

  "The only way to save myself was to get the corned leg amputated till the knee," said the actor

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  UP Doctors Use Man's Severed Foot As Headrest After His Surgery

  The severed, bloodied foot of a man is used as a headrest to prop him up: the stomach-churning scene is not from a macabre Bollywood movie but seen in cellphone footage filmed at a large government hospital in Uttar Pradesh's Jhansi district.

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  Man Faces 'Possible Amputation' After Central Park Explosion

  A 19-year-old man was seriously injured, and may have lost a foot, after a small explosion in New York's Central Park on Sunday, authorities said.

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  This 8-Year-Old Arson Survivor Wanted Cards For Christmas; She Got Her Wish

  Safyre Terry, who is now 8, suffered severe burns. Her foot and hand were eventually amputated, and she lost skin on her face.

• British woman wins right to not have infected leg amputated

  A British woman whose foot became ulcerated and gangrenous, then literally fell off has won the right to refuse a potentially life-saving leg amputation.

• Thief's hand, foot to be amputated in Yemen: report

  A Yemeni court on Sunday ordered the amputation of the right hand and left foot of a man convicted of robbery, the official Saba news agency said.

• Taliban punish two Afghans with amputations: police

  Afghanistan's Taliban Islamic insurgents have amputated a hand and a foot of two private security guards because they worked for foreign troops, police and one of the victims said on Saturday.

• Mali Islamists amputate four suspected robbers

  Islamists from an Al-Qaeda offshoot on Monday chopped a hand and a foot off four suspected robbers in the northern Malian city of Gao, witnesses told AFP.

• Amputation risk high for diabetics

  Individuals with type 1 diabetes or insulin-dependent diabetes are at a high risk of having a foot or leg amputated.

• Kidney disease linked to foot ulcer

  Diabetics with chronic kidney disease have a higher risk of developing foot ulcers or undergoing lower-extremity amputation than non-diabetics.

• Diabetes foot care prevents amputations

  Diabetes related amputations could be prevented with the introduction of better-organised diabetes foot care.

• Surgery helps avoid amputations in diabetics

  People with diabetes face a high risk of having to have a foot or lower leg amputated, but timely surgery may prevent this.