Long-term effects of finger amputation on stump skin sensibility and digital nerve conduction

Muscle and Nerve

Volumn 19, Issue 8, 1996, Pages 1049-1051

  Chu, Nai Shin ^a,b  

^a CHANG GUNG UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

^b CHANG GUNG MEMORIAL HOSPITAL   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

amputation neuroma; cutaneous sensation; digit amputation; nerve conduction

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AMPUTATION STUMP; ARTICLE; CHILD; CLINICAL ARTICLE; FINGER AMPUTATION; HUMAN; NERVE CONDUCTION; NERVE POTENTIAL; NERVE REGENERATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RETROGRADE NERVE FIBER TRANSPORT; SKIN SENSITIVITY;

ACTION POTENTIALS; ADULT; AMPUTATION; FEMALE; FINGERS; HUMANS; MALE; NEURAL CONDUCTION; SKIN; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 0029808770     PISSN: 0148639X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/(SICI)1097-4598(199608)19:8<1049::AID-MUS14>3.0.CO;2-S     Document Type: Article

References (14)

1. Aitken JT, Thomas PK: Retrograde changes in fibre size following nerve section. J Anal 1962;96:121-129.
2. Caruso G, Noland M, Lullo F, Crisci C, Nilsson J, Massini R: Median nerve sensory responses evoked by tactile stimulation of the finger proximal and distal phalanx in normal subjects. Muscle Nave 1994;17:269-275.
3. Chu NS: Retrograde effects of digital nerve severance on somatosensory evoked potentials in man. Muscle Nerve 1994;17:313-319.
4. Chu NS, Chu EC, Yu JM: Conduction study of digital nerve function recovery following toe-to-digit transplantation and a comparison with digit-to-digit replantation. Muscle Nerve 1995;18:1257-1264.
5. Dyck PJ, Lais AG, Karnes JL, Sparks M, Hunder H, Low PH, Windebank AJ: Permanent axotomy, a model of axon atrophy and secondary segmental demyelination and remyelination. Ann Neurol 1981;9:575-583.
6. Johansson RS, Vallbo ÅB: Tactile sensibility in the human hand: relative and absolute densities of four types of mechanoreceptive units in the glabrous skin. J Physiol (Lond) 1979;286:283-300.
7. Mackel R: Human cutaneous mechanoreceptors during regeneration: physiology and interpretation. Ann Neurol 1985;18:165-172.
8. McComas AJ, Sica REP: Long-term effects of partial limb amputation in man. J Neurol Neurosurg Psychiatry 1978;41:426-432.
9. Ochoa J, Torebjörk E: Sensations evoked by intraneural microstimulation of single mechanoreceptor units innervating the human hand. J Physiol (Lond) 1983;342:633-654.
10. Scadding JG: Ectopic impulse generation in experimental neuromas: behavioral, physiological and anatomical correlates, in Gulp VVJ, Ochoa J (eds): Abnormal Nerves and Muscles as Impulse Generators. New York, Oxford University Press, 1982, pp 533-552.
11. Schady W, Braune S, Watson S, Torebjörk HE, Schmidt R: Responsiveness of the somatosensory system after nerve injury and amputation in the human hand. Ann Neurol 1994;36:68-75.
12. Valibo ÅB, Hagbarth KE, Torebjörk HE, Wallin BG: Somatosensory, proprioceptive, and sympathetic activity in human peripheral nerves. Physiol Rev 1979;59:919-957.
13. Wall JT, Cusick CG: Cutaneous responsiveness in primary somatosensory (S-I) hindpaw cortex before and after partial hindpaw deafferentation in adult rats. J Neurosci 1984;4:1499-1515.
14. Wall PD, Gutnick M: Ongoing activity in peripheral nerves: the physiology and pharmacology of impulses originating from a neuroma. Exp Neurol 1974;43:580-593.