Bone Shortening After Amputation: A Report of Two Cases

We report two cases of shortening of the bone at the stump after amputation. Case 1 was a 57-year-old male with a traumatic transhumeral amputation. The remaining humerus had shortened by 3.5 cm in eight months. Case 2 was a 27-year-old male with a traumatic transtibial amputation. The remaining tib...

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Autores principales: Tanaka, Yohei, Ueno, Takaaki, Miura, Toshiki
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Cureus 2023
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Physical Medicine & Rehabilitation
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10373108/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/37519481
http://dx.doi.org/10.7759/cureus.41024
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description We report two cases of shortening of the bone at the stump after amputation. Case 1 was a 57-year-old male with a traumatic transhumeral amputation. The remaining humerus had shortened by 3.5 cm in eight months. Case 2 was a 27-year-old male with a traumatic transtibial amputation. The remaining tibia had shortened by 1.4 cm in 72 months. These two cases had the same cause of amputation, but the amputation site, age, and time course differed. Few studies have examined the bone length of stumps after amputation. The bone length of stumps is generally assumed to not change after amputation. However, the residual bone at the stump can shorten after amputation.
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spelling pubmed-103731082023-07-28 Bone Shortening After Amputation: A Report of Two Cases Tanaka, Yohei Ueno, Takaaki Miura, Toshiki Cureus Physical Medicine & Rehabilitation We report two cases of shortening of the bone at the stump after amputation. Case 1 was a 57-year-old male with a traumatic transhumeral amputation. The remaining humerus had shortened by 3.5 cm in eight months. Case 2 was a 27-year-old male with a traumatic transtibial amputation. The remaining tibia had shortened by 1.4 cm in 72 months. These two cases had the same cause of amputation, but the amputation site, age, and time course differed. Few studies have examined the bone length of stumps after amputation. The bone length of stumps is generally assumed to not change after amputation. However, the residual bone at the stump can shorten after amputation. Cureus 2023-06-27 /pmc/articles/PMC10373108/ /pubmed/37519481 http://dx.doi.org/10.7759/cureus.41024 Text en Copyright © 2023, Tanaka et al. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited.
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