[Late results of patients with amputation of the thigh (author's transl)]

111 patients with amputation of the thigh of the last world war were examined. Besides the complaints in their thigh they suffered mostly from low back pain and osteoarthritis in the knee of the other leg. For a medical report it is important to decide whether the low back pain comes from lumbar disc disease or from secondary scoliosis of the lumbar spine which is caused by the amputation. Secondary changes in the spine and in the other leg can also be expected when a lower limb is heavily injured.