Functional results after a Krukenberg amputation

Prosthet Orthot Int. 2005 Apr;29(1):87-92. doi: 10.1080/17461550500069539.

Abstract

This case report presents a 51 year old female patient who had a train accident in 1999. She suffered bilateral trans-tibial and bilateral trans-radial amputations. In this paper, the evolution of the right transradial amputation where eventually a Krukenberg procedure was performed, is described as is its good functional outcome after rehabilitation treatment. After this first procedure the patient also asked for the Krukenberg procedure for her left arm.

Publication types

  • Case Reports

MeSH terms

  • Activities of Daily Living
  • Amputation Stumps / pathology
  • Amputation Stumps / surgery*
  • Amputation, Traumatic
  • Amputees / rehabilitation*
  • Arm Injuries / surgery
  • Artificial Limbs
  • Atrophy
  • Female
  • Hand Strength
  • Humans
  • Hypertrophy
  • Leg
  • Middle Aged
  • Multiple Trauma / surgery
  • Muscle, Skeletal / pathology
  • Recovery of Function
  • Surgical Flaps*
  • Tendons / transplantation