title: [Providing amelia patients with prostheses - overtreatment? Experiences with long-term follow-ups].
abstract: Critical evaluation of the long-term follow-up experience in three patients with melia leads to the conclusion that prosthetic care must be regarded as inadequate and useless, as an instance of overtreatment. The reasons are shown, the special problems in rehabilitation of amelic patients are put forth.
mesh_terms: D000293:Adolescent; D000367:Age Factors; D001132:Arm; D001186:Artificial Limbs; D002648:Child; D002675:Child, Preschool; D004480:Ectromelia / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging / Q000534:rehabilitation*; D005260:Female; D005500:Follow-Up Studies; D006801:Humans; D007223:Infant; D019736:Prostheses and Implants; D011474:Prosthesis Design; D011859:Radiography
vernacular_title: Die prothetische Versorgung von Patienten mit Amelie - ein Overtreatment? Erfahrungen aus einer Langzeitbeobachtung.