Elephantiasis mainly affects the lower extremities; the ears, mucous membranes, and amputation stumps are affected less frequently.
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The muscle and skin flaps on his amputation stumps failed to close properly and resulted in nonhealing wounds.
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Amputation stumps can be sensitive to cold or heat, particularly as their capacity to regulate tissue congestion is limited.
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The skin of amputation stumps can be very sensitive to allergic, chemical or mechanical irritation and thus may have to be protected.
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His surgical work at this time led to his writing a book, " Amputation Stumps : Their Care and After Treatment " ( Frowde, Hodder & Stoughton, London 1918 ).
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This procedure involves separation of the ulna and radius bones in order to convert a below-elbow amputation stump into a " sensory forceps " that receives its strength from the pronator teres muscle.
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Merzenich and his colleagues first amputated the middle fingers from a group of adult owl monkeys and later stimulated the digits on the hand of each monkey that were adjacent to the amputation stump.
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This first explanation ( by Krafft-Ebbing in his 1872 Psychopathia Sexualis ) rests on the assumption that amputation stumps resemble phalli and is in line with the contemporaneous linking of sexual oddity with homosexuality;
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