Neonatal forelimb removal in rats results in the development of inappropriate hindlimb inputs in the forelimb-stump representation of primary somatosensory cortex (S-I) that are revealed when GABA(A) and GABA(B) receptor activity are blocked. Experiments carried out to date have not made clear what information is being suppressed at the level of individual neurons. In this study, three potentia...

Stump appendicitis is an acute inflammation of remnant appendix, a rare complication of incomplete appendectomy. It may present as acute abdomen with history of appendectomy, which may cause delay in diagnosis. Therefore, incomplete appendectomy should be considered as a differential diagnosis of acute abdomen in patients with medical history of appendectomy. The present case is one of stump ap...

Ultrasound is becoming popular in anaesthetic practice because of numerous advantages. Its introduction in pain medicine is recent and its use is growing. It allows the identification of soft tissues, vessels and nerves, without the risk of radiation. The additional advantages in pain medicine are avoidance of repeated radiations and ease of use in outpatient clinics, thus saving time and decre...

AIM To study long-term outcome of unilateral above-knee amputation. OBJECTIVE Long-term clinical symptoms and functional status of above-knee amputees are not well documented. The purpose of this study was to document the long-term outcome of war related above-knee amputations. CONTEXT The study consisted of a comprehensive assessment and examination and review of history and wartime medica...

BACKGROUND Cheng's method, a new surgical method for penile reconstruction in which the original glans or the residual penile stump is transferred to the anterior portion of the newly reconstructed penile body with microsurgical techniques, was first introduced in 1997. The purpose of this article was to show the recovery of sensation of the reconstructed penis. METHODS A long-term follow-up ...

The aim of this study is to compare the thin section computed tomography (CT) characteristics of the early local tumor recurrence with those of the stump deformity or granulation tissue after the resection of squamous cell carcinoma (SCC).Twenty-nine consecutive patients with local recurrence after definitive SCC operation from April 2006 to September 2012 were included in our study. Pre- and p...

Morphological changes in the amputation stump may have serious implications regarding the suspension and fit of the prosthetic socket. In an earlier study (Lilja and Oberg, 1997) the authors have shown that the volume of the trans-tibial amputation stump decreases according to a negative power function after amputation, and that the stump volume does not stabilise until four months after the op...

In most anterior cruciate ligament (ACL) tears, the tear is at the femoral side leaving a robust stump attached to the tibia. Stump-preserving ACL reconstruction carries the advantage of rapid reinnervation and revascularization of the graft. In this technique, the femoral tunnel is created after exposing the femoral footprint. The ACL tibial stump is split and the tip of the ACL tibial guide i...