Abstract
Amputation in a growing child should be performed through a joint and not above or below a joint, as is commonly the case in an adult. We describe a technique for performing a through-knee amputation in a situation in which a soft-tissue sarcoma involved a leg, reaching up to the knee joint. Soft-tissue dissection was performed above the knee, leaving a safe zone from the tumor. The distal femur was dissected free of all attachments to the tibia and leg, leaving it intact but protruding from the soft-tissue sleeve of the thigh. To be able to close the stump over the protruding distal femur, the femur was shortened in the metaphysodiaphyseal area. Follow-up over 3 years shows a good through-knee stump, tumor free, and a normal distal growth plate.
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