Bone mass and size clearly affect the safety and survival of wild animals as well as human beings, however, little is known about the interactions between bone size and movement dynamics. A modeling a...
BACKGROUND: Therapy for phantom sensation and phantom limb pain following amputation is still difficult, because pathophysiologic mechanisms have not been clarified. This report illustrates a simple a...
Surgical treatment of chronic phantom limb sensation and limb pain after lower limb amputation.
Prantl L, Schreml S, Heine N, Eisenmann-Klein M, Angele P.
Institute of Plastic Surgery and Department...
BACKGROUND: Isolated limb perfusion (ILP) with tumor necrosis factor (TNF) and melphalan is highly effective in treating limb-threatening soft tissue sarcoma (STS) and other bulky tumors. Because of f...
This study aims to describe the prevalence and characteristics of phantom limb pain and residual limb pain after upper limb amputation. One-hundred and forty-one participants (139 males; mean age 74.8...
PURPOSE: This research aimed to develop a clearer picture of the experience of residual limb pain and phantom limb pain following a lower limb amputation and to gain a greater understanding of their r...
We studied the incidence of critical limb ischemia (CLI) and amputation outcome of the contralateral limb in 533 diabetic patients hospitalized in our diabetic foot centre because of CLI from 1999 to ...