An improved prosthesis for hemipelvectomy.

نویسندگان

  • S J YUE
  • C R GOLDSTINE
چکیده

Hemipelvectomy, or interinnomino-abdominal amputation, is an extensive surgical operation, usually for malignancy involving the upper femur, hip joint, pelvis, and the surrounding soft tissue. This operation was first performed by Billroth in 1891; 1 the patient survived only a few hours. Gordon-Taylor,2 in a review of 50 cases of hemipelvectomy performed at the Middlesex Hospital in England between the years 1922 and 1950, found the operative mortality before 1940 was 36 per cent and after 1940 was 18 per cent. Pack3 reported 8 cases of hemipelvectomy in 1947; there was no im­ mediate operative mortality. King and Steelquist4 reported 6 cases in 1943;

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عنوان ژورنال:
  • Archives of physical medicine and rehabilitation

دوره 38 12  شماره 

صفحات  -

تاریخ انتشار 1957