We studied the cases of eleven patients in whom a rotationplasty had
been done after wide resection of the distal part of the femur. All
patients had had a malignant tumor of bone, but none had the complication
of edema or leakage of lymph after the rotationplasty. We made
lymphoscintiscans soon after the operation in four patients and weeks or
months later in all eleven patients. There was a delay in the flow of lymph
in three of the four patients who were examined lymphoscintigraphically
soon after the operation and there was obstruction of flow in the fourth
patient, but there was evidence of a decreased rate of flow in only two of
the eleven patients at the time of the later examination.