[The treatment and prosthesis after an interilioabdominal amputation for sarcomas of the bones and soft tissues]

According to data of the Research Institute of Oncology named after N. N. Petrov, progress was achieved in treatment of patients who were subject to interilioabdominal amputation for malignant tumors. Five years survival after such operations was 19.7 +/- 3.4%. The prosthesis for patients subjected to interilioabdominal amputations was developed in Research Institute of Prosthesis (Saint Petersburg). It was successfully used in 11 patients in the age from 8 to 51 years. The original construction of the prosthesis gives the patients possibility to walk without crutches, move along staircases with 25-cm-high footsteps and to use urban transport.