Pain after amputation
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Pain after amputation
Amputation of a body part, whether as a result of trauma or surgical intervention, is almost always associated with awareness of, and sensations referred to, the missing body part. These sensations were first noted by Ambroise Pare, a French military surgeon in the middle of the 16th century. Mitchel first used the term `phantom' in 1871 from his observations and medical studies of the American...
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عنوان ژورنال: British Journal of Anaesthesia
سال: 1998
ISSN: 0007-0912
DOI: 10.1093/bja/81.3.486