TECHNICAL NOTE: An Easy-to-Fabricate Modified Hip Disarticulation Temporary Prosthesis
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Severe peripheral vascular disease, ma lignant tumor, or trauma occasionally re quires the performance of a very proximal lower limb amputation. When proximal amputation is performed in young people, it is expected that they will be able to am bulate with a prosthesis. Occasionally, however, the amputation surgeon is con fronted with the older patient who requires amputation at the hip disarticulation or proximal femoral level. When amputation is performed at this level, the prosthetic fitting is similar to the hip disarticulation. Waters, et. al . 1 have shown high energy requirements associated with ambulation at these high levels of amputation. Stan dard techniques are available to start the prosthetic fitting process in the young pa tient, 2 but these techniques are expensive and time-consuming to the prosthetist. We have recently reported the results of a sim ple fabrication technique for early-postsurgical-prosthetic fitting of below-knee amputees. 3 The object of this paper is to present a simple system that can be used to fabricate a temporary prosthesis in this difficult patient population. TECHNIQUE
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تاریخ انتشار 2010