Does Limb-salvage Surgery Offer Patients Better Quality of Life and Functional Capacity than Amputation?

Farbod Malek, Jeremy S. Somerson, Shannon Mitchel, Ronald P. Williams

Clinical Orthopaedics and Related Research · 2012 · 105 citations · 32 references

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Abstract

These data suggest that limb-salvage surgery offers better gait efficiency and return to normal living compared with above-knee amputation, but does not improve the patient's perception of quality of life.

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