“…The 20% infection rate in our series of patients is lower than reported rates in some series [3,4,18,26,27,36,39,41,45,46] and greater or comparable to the experience reported in other studies [1,8,12,13,19,20,29,30,38] ( Table 3). The overall infection rate in many series varied from 10% to 47% after internal hemipelvectomy [1, 3, 4, 8, 10, 12, 13, 18-20, 23, 25-27, 29, 30, 34, 36, 38-41, 45, 46], whereas it ranged from 11% to 38% in patients who had resection and endoprosthetic reconstruction [1,3,12,19,20,26,27,36,45,46]. Abudu et al [3] reported a 26% infection rate in a series of 35 patients undergoing endoprosthetic reconstruction with saddle prostheses.…”