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 ...

SURGICAL opinion varies widely as to the advisability of performing below-knee amputations in limbs that exhibit diminished circulation at the level of amputation. It has been shown that below-knee ...

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 ...