THE possibility of preventing the formation of a so-called amputation neuroma on the distal end of the proximal part of a cut peripheral nerve is one that has to be commonly faced by general and ...

After an amputation, some patients may feel pain in their residual limbs. Post-amputation pain, categorized as phantom pain or stump pain, can be a challenging condition to treat. Phantom pain is ...

There were 4 failures in this group, in which, because of spreading infection or gangrene, 3 had to have amputation at a higher level, the fourth dying of associated uremia. The last would have ...