Die Trill J, Madrid J M Fernández, Ferrero E, Igea J, Torres A, Gómez J L, Medina I, Canales C, Perea F, Carda P, García Villanueva A, Die Goyanes A
Clínica Moncloa, Fundación General Universidad de Alcalá (FGUA), c/José Donoso 2, 5 B, Madrid, 28050, Spain.
Hernia. 2005 Dec;9(4):375-7. doi: 10.1007/s10029-005-0328-8. Epub 2005 May 24.
We report the case of a white male who underwent a classic hemipelvectomy due to a femur fibrosarcoma with inguinal metastases, which 33 years later, developed into a posthemipelvectomy hernia in the amputation stump that impaired the use of his Canadian prosthesis. The hernia was repaired with a polypropylene mesh in a subaponeurotic position. A seroma was drained in the postoperative and it was only 2 months after the operation that he could use his prosthesis with any difficulty. A year after the operation, the hernia had not recurred. Only seven similar cases have been published, and there are only four cases with details of their correction, two with a mesh as was our case, and the rest with a primary suture of the aponeurotic borders. A brief review of the bibliography is given on this subject.
