SYME'S AMPUTATION

Amniotic amputation

Amniotic band syndrome (ABS) is an uncommon, congenital fetal abnormality. Lower extremity limb defects are the common manifestations of ABS. The most common features include congenital distal ring constrictions, intrauterine amputations, and acrosyndactyly. Rare cases of craniofacial and visceral defects were reported. A female newborn, born at 33 weeks of gestation from a 43 years-old mother,...

Syme's amputation.

This issue of ARTIFICIAL LIMBS is, and always will be, a classical contribution to everything pertaining to Syme's amputation, including, as it does, the most detailed and accurate description extant of the proper method of doing the amputation. It has to be remembered that Syme was the greatest of the pre-Listerian surgeons and, indeed, his operation was developed to combat the disastrous sept...

Amputation stumps.

Penile Self-amputation

A 24-year-old man was brought to an outside hospital emergency department by his mother after the distal three-quarters of his penis with a utility knife was completely amputated. The patient was hemodynamically stable at the time of presentation; however, he was actively bleeding from the dorsal penile arteries. Vascular clamps were placed for hemostasis, a Foley catheter was placed into the u...

Psychosocial Aspects of Amputation

Twenty-five subjects were studied who had undergone amputation 6 months to 2 years prior to the time of assessment. The sample was divided into sick (those having psychiatric illness) and non-sick (those without any psychiatric illness) groups, and then compared for various life events following the amputation. It was seen that those who were labelled as psychiatrically sick had more work impai...