A sleeping phantom leg awakened following hemicolectomy, thrombosis, and chemotherapy: a case report
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A sleeping phantom leg awakened following hemicolectomy, thrombosis, and chemotherapy: a case report
INTRODUCTION We describe the case of a patient who experienced phantom pain that began 42 years after right above-the-knee amputation. Immediately prior to phantom pain onset, this long-term amputee had experienced, in rapid succession, cancer, hemicolectomy, chemotherapy, and thrombotic occlusion. Very little has been published to date on the association between chemotherapy and exacerbation o...
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عنوان ژورنال: Journal of Medical Case Reports
سال: 2011
ISSN: 1752-1947
DOI: 10.1186/1752-1947-5-203