Research Article: Risk Factors Analysis of Phantom Limb Pain in Amputees with Malignant Tumors
Introduction:
As early as the th century, Dr. Ambroise Pare, one of the founders of modern surgery, found that some of his patients could still feel the presence of their limbs and pain in those areas months after they had been amputated. – In the th century, American neurologist Silas Weir Mitchell named the condition “phantom limb”, and the pain that the patient felt was called “phantom limb pain(PLP)”. A phantom limb is a phenomenon involving human neural induction rather than a patient’s imagination. Phantom limb pain is a…
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