- Description
- Shooting pains (usually triggered by touch)
originating from injured area
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- Cause
- Formation of painful scar tissue in a skin
nerve after partial or complete transsection
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- Treatment
- Surgical excision of neuroma with burying of
stump in fat, or nerve graft if possible
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- Example
- A patient required an above knee amputation;
the skin nerves had to be transsected
- A patient suffered a knife wound and
developed a painful nodule in the scar
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- Results
- 70% pain relief , but numbness persists
unless grafting was successful
- Decreased need for medication
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