Amputation neuroma growing intravascularly into a thrombus.
An adult man underwent arm amputation for a sarcoma. Pain and three masses observed radiologically prompted surgical exploration five years later. Microscopically, the masses represented amputation neuromas. One of them was located in the lumen of an artery, in a remote organized thrombus. Intravascular growth of an amputation neuroma has not been described previously.
University of Minnesota Medical School, Minneapolis, MN, USA.
Wade L
WL
Schulz
Veterans Administration Medical Center, Minneapolis, MN, USA juan.manivel@va.gov.
J Carlos
JC
Manivel
D000671:Amputation, Surgical / Q000009:adverse effects*; D000672:Amputation Stumps / Q000473:pathology; D001158:Arteries / Q000473:pathology*; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D009416:Nerve Regeneration / Q000502:physiology*; D009463:Neuroma / Q000473:pathology*; D013927:Thrombosis / Q000209:etiology / Q000473:pathology*
Wallerian degeneration; amputation; neuroma