title: The value of revision surgery after initial amputation of an upper or lower limb.
abstract: The value of revision surgery when carried out more than six weeks after initial amputation of the upper or lower limb was assessed. When performed for stump and/or phantom limb pain alone, only 33/95 (35%) obtained satisfactory results after one revision; 25/95 (26%) of the patients required four or more surgical procedures without relief of pain. However, when carried out for local specific pathology, the results of surgical revision were 100% successful, even if the procedure had to be repeated once in 15% (28/189) of this group of patients. Transcutaneous nerve stimulation appeared to offer no long lasting relief of pain following amputation surgery.
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D000671:Amputation, Surgical; D000672:Amputation Stumps / Q000601:surgery; D006801:Humans; D010149:Postoperative Pain / Q000628:therapy; D010591:Phantom Limb / Q000601:surgery; D012086:Reoperation; D013997:Time Factors; D004561:Transcutaneous Electric Nerve Stimulation