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Wheeless' Textbook of Orthopaedics

Above-Elbow Amputation



- See: Upper Extremity Prosthetics:

- Surgical Considerations:
    - consider the Marquardt Osteotomy of the Humerus:
    - supracondylar, to put 15-20 deg of posterior angulation at this site,
          to facilitate suspension and provide rotational control;
    - distal piece must be at least 5 cm long;
    - stagger the median and ulnar nerve resection levels to avoid a large
          confluent neuroma;





Original Text by Clifford R. Wheeless, III, MD.