The post-amputation (pain) syndrome, including stump pain, phantom limb sensation, and phantom limb pain is common but difficult to treat. Refractory stump pain in the syndrome is an extremely challenging and troublesome clinical condition. Patients respond poorly to drugs, nerve blocks, and other effective treatments like spinal cord stimulation and surgery. Pulsed radiofrequency (PRF) techniq...

With the development of the patellar-tendon-bearing prosthesis by the University of California at Berkeley, many new advantages in simplicity, comfort, and function were available to the below-knee amputee. However, there still exists the problem of concentrated pressures over small areas of the stump. The original design of the patellar-tendonbearing prosthesis was intended to distribute the l...

background: coverage of the bronchial stumps (bss) with adjacent tissues can improve healing and reduce bronchial complications in complex thoracic surgery. there is no evidence for the application of human amnion allograft for prevention of air leak from the bs. the comparison of the amniotic membrane (am) and pleural patch for bs healing after lobectomy in dogs was our aim in this study. mate...

Previously this laboratory demonstrated that forelimb removal at birth in rats results in the invasion of the cuneate nucleus by sciatic nerve axons and the development of cuneothalamic cells with receptive fields that include both the forelimb-stump and the hindlimb. However, unit-cluster recordings from primary somatosensory cortex (SI) of these animals revealed few sites in the forelimb-stum...

The features of unlesioned and lesioned trochlear nerves of goldfish have been examined electron microscopically. Lesioned nerves were studied between 1 and 107 days after cutting or crushing the nerve. Unlesioned nerves contained, on average, 77 myelinated axons and 19 unmyelinated axons. The latter were found in 1-2 fascicles per nerve. A basal lamina surrounded each myelinated axon and fasci...

2 Present address: Columbia Medical Center, 630 W. 168th St., New York, N. Y. 10032. The critical relationship between accurate fit of a prosthesis and amputee comfort and function constitutes the foundation of all prosthetic fitting. Consequently, one of the most important features of a lower-extremity prosthesis is the distribution of the pressures applied to the stump by the socket. Since Wo...

INTRODUCTION Bronchial stump aspergillosis is a rare entity characterized by cough and hemoptysis. CASE PRESENTATION We report the case of a 58-year-old Caucasian woman who developed bronchial stump aspergillosis two years after a left upper lobe resection for lung cancer. Bronchial stump aspergillosis was diagnosed as a result of a focus of increased fluorodeoxyglucose activity in a follow-u...

A series of 9 patients have experienced hemisphere and retinal ischemia at an interval after occlusion of appropriate internal carotid arteries. All had radiological evidence of a persisting proximal stump to the occluded artery and, in most, pathological evidence of thrombotic material attached to atheromatous lesions within the stump. Thromboembolism from the stump via the anastomotic supply ...

BACKGROUND There is little information available to inform choice of technique for appendiceal stump control in pediatric laparoscopic appendectomy (LA). We compared complications (stump leak, intra-abdominal abscess formation [IAA], surgical site infection [SSI]) in children undergoing LA for perforated (PA) and nonperforated appendicitis (NPA) by technique of appendiceal stump control. METH...

The OBJECTIVE was to improve the results of pancreatoduodenal resection by reducing incidence pancreatoenteroanastomotic leak and postoperative pancreatitis with a «soft» pancreatic stump. METHODS AND MATERIALS . A new method for formation pancreatoenteroanastomosis has been developed implemented: precision wirsungojejunoanastomosis additional wide atraumatic peritonization stump cutoff loop sm...