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British Journal of Anaesthesia, 2001 Phantom pain is experienced by 60% to 80% of patients following limb amputation but is only severe in about 5% to 10% of cases. The mechanisms underlying pain in amputees are not fully understood, but factors in both the peripheral and central nervous system play a role.
Lone Nikolajsen, Troels S. Jensen
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Korean Journal of Anesthesiology, 2012 A phantom syndrome is a pain syndrome that occurs when part of the body, such as the nose, tongue, breast, tooth, testis, penis, bladder, or anus, has been lost as the result of an accident or operation. Its frequency and etiology remain unclear [1]. Phantom bladder pain is a rare phantom syndrome that has not been reported previously in South Korea ...
Kyeong-Eon Park +4 more
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Indian J Surg, 2012 Right upper quadrant abdominal pain may be due to many causes, and at times may give rise to diagnostic dilemma. We present here a young lady with biliary type of pain who was eventually found to have gall bladder agenesis with aerobilia, in the absence of prior biliary intervention.
Choudhury N, Talukdar R, Hagjer S.
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Pain in traumatic upper limb amputees in Sierra Leone. [PDF]
, 2002 Data on 40 upper limb amputees (11 bilateral) with regard to stump pain, phantom sensation and phantom pain is presented. All the patients lost their limbs as a result of violent injuries intended to terrorise the population and were assessed 10-48 ...
Crombie, I K, Lacoux, P, Macrae, W A
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Etiology of phantom limb syndrome: Insights from a 3D default space consciousness model [PDF]
, 2015 In this article, we examine phantom limb syndrome to gain insights into how the brain functions as the mind and how consciousness arises. We further explore our previously proposed consciousness model in which consciousness and body schema arise when ...
Crawford, Molly W. +2 more
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Fantom pain: Case report [PDF]
Serbian Journal of Anesthesia and Intensive Therapy, 2017 Background Phantom limb pain is a common problem after limb amputation (41-85%). It is described as an extremely painful sensation in the missing part of the body that can last for hours, days or even years.
Marić Sanja S. +5 more
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Treatment of phantom pain with contralateral injection into tender points: a new method of treatment
Egyptian Rheumatology and Rehabilitation, 2015 Objective The aim of this study was to ascertain the existence of contralateral painful muscle areas mirroring phantom pain and to evaluate the short-term effects of anaesthetics versus saline, injected contralaterally to control phantom and phantom limb
Alaa A El Aziz Labeeb, Roberto Casale
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Phantom Pain Reduction by Non-ionizing Electromagnetic Treatment [PDF]
, 2010 Based on our years of experience testing a technique called non-ionizing Electromagnetic-Own-Signal-Treatment (EMOST), here, we present our preliminary results for phantom pain reduction by this method under clinical circumstances.
Istvan Bokkon
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