The availability of various multiarticulated prosthetic hands makes determining differences in functionality between these hands relevant. The current study asked whether the functionality of these hands increased with time of use and whether grip force and robustness improved. A 45-year-old man with wrist disarticulation used the i-LIMB and the i-LIMB Pulse hands in a series of tests covering ...

This case report details our experience with lower-extremity ischemia due to extracorporeal membrane oxygenation. The patient presented massive myonecrosis caused by of the thighs and lower legs. Biphasic wound closure was performed using ultrasound debridement negative-pressure therapy prepare bed after knee disarticulation above-knee amputation.

1 Assistant Director, Prosthetics Research Center, Northwestern University, 401 E. Ohio St., Chicago; formerly Research Engineer, Prosthetic Services Centre, Canadian Department of Veterans Affairs, Sunnybrook Hospital, Toronto. Not many people are amputees. Still fewer people are prosthetists. Not many amputees are hip-disarticulation cases. Hence, not many prosthetists are interested in hip-d...

We present a rare case of Stewart-Treves syndrome characterized by a diffuse angiosarcoma of the leg in a 22-year-old man with a history of chronic lymphedema due to Klippel-Trénaunay-Weber syndrome. He underwent limb disarticulation and medical treatment with cycles of doxorubicin, oral thalidomide and sunitinib with a very good response after 12 months of follow-up.

Twelve patients with subungual squamous cell carcinoma were treated at Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center during a 27-year period. To our knowledge, only 58 cases are reported in the literature. Trauma and chronic infection were predisposing factors in some of the cases, and radiation therapy was a substantive predisposing factor in our series. Disarticulation of the distal phalanx proved e...

Femoral bifurcation and tibia hemimelia are rare anomalies. Hereby, we present a case report of a 2-year-old boy who first presented in our orthopedic clinic as a 12-day-old neonate, with a grossly deformed right lower limb from a combination of complete tibia hemimelia and ipsilateral femoral bifurcation. Excision of femoral exostosis, knee disarticulation and prosthetic fitting gives satisfac...