The Preservation of the Limb in the Treatment of Sarcoma of Bone

of the femur and humerus?hip-joint amputation for all growths affecting the femur, and Berger's amputation rather than amputation at the shoulder-joint for such growths of the humerus in its upper part. On the other hand, the generallyrecognised treatment of sarcoma of a muscle is not amputation but excision of the growth, though I know one surgeon has consistently advocated amputation for such growths, because he considers that they are as malignant as periosteal sarcomas of bone, or at any rate of certain bones. But the majority of British surgeons are not consistent about tlys, for there is really no reason why we should amputate a limb for