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  • Title: Bilateral below-knee amputee 107 years old and still wearing artificial limbs.
    Author: Saadah ES.
    Journal: Prosthet Orthot Int; 1988 Aug; 12(2):105-6. PubMed ID: 3174408.
    Abstract:
    It is not often that a person over 100 years old is able to walk on artificial limbs and maintain their mobility and independence after going through bilateral below-knee amputation. This case note is about a 107 year old lady with bilateral below-knee amputation, who is perhaps the oldest surviving bilateral below-knee amputee in the British Isles, if not in the World. There does not appear to be any reference in the literature to a bilateral below-knee amputee of 100 years old plus, who is still alive and wearing his or her artificial limbs. The nearest is of a 91 year old lady with bilateral below-knee amputation and wearing artificial limbs, reported by Gerhardt et al, 1986.
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