Sixty-one cases (sixty-six limbs) of lower extrimity amputation in our clinic were examined from 1975 to 1985. An average age of patients was 44.7 years. Causes of amputation were bone and soft tissue tumors (34 cases, 55.7%), vascular disease (13 cases, 21.3%), burn, trauma and infection etc. (14 cases, 23.0%). Bilateral amputations were performed on 5 cases; 3 cases of vascular disease, one case of trauma and osteomyelitis respectively. Five of 61 cases were impossible to gait on clinical course because of vascular diseases except one with von Recklinghausen disease.
