The neuroma-like structure of the long-time severed and isolated nerve stumps.

It is not our scope to discuss in this paper the neuromas, but report the presence of a neuroma-like structure we have mentioned in previous papers, while studying the nerve fibres of the long-time severed and experimentally isolated nerve stumps, Erhart and col.1 , 2, 3, 4. Although we did not find any reference in literature about these neuroma-like structures, they were frequently found in our experimental material in the extremities of the repopulated intermediate and distal nerve segments, close to the site of section, and in some proximal extremities of distal stumps of human nerves which were examined at the time these patients were submitted to nerve suture years after the accidental nerve transection.