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A sleeping phantom leg awakened following hemicolectomy, thrombosis, and chemotherapy: a case report

Overview of attention for article published in Journal of Medical Case Reports, May 2011
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Title
A sleeping phantom leg awakened following hemicolectomy, thrombosis, and chemotherapy: a case report
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Journal of Medical Case Reports, May 2011
DOI 10.1186/1752-1947-5-203
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Melita J Giummarra, John L Bradshaw, Michael ER Nicholls, Nellie Georgiou-Karistianis, Stephen J Gibson

Abstract

We describe the case of a patient who experienced phantom pain that began 42 years after right above-the-knee amputation. Immediately prior to phantom pain onset, this long-term amputee had experienced, in rapid succession, cancer, hemicolectomy, chemotherapy, and thrombotic occlusion. Very little has been published to date on the association between chemotherapy and exacerbation of neuropathic pain in amputees, let alone the phenomenon of bringing about pain in amputees who have been pain-free for many decades. While this patient presented with a unique profile following a rare sequence of medical events, his case should be recognized considering the frequent co-occurrence of osteomyelitis, chemotherapy, and amputation.

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Geographical breakdown

Country Count As %
Ireland 1 4%
Unknown 26 96%

Demographic breakdown

Readers by professional status Count As %
Student > Master 6 22%
Researcher 5 19%
Student > Bachelor 3 11%
Student > Ph. D. Student 3 11%
Lecturer 2 7%
Other 4 15%
Unknown 4 15%
Readers by discipline Count As %
Medicine and Dentistry 9 33%
Nursing and Health Professions 4 15%
Psychology 4 15%
Engineering 3 11%
Agricultural and Biological Sciences 1 4%
Other 0 0%
Unknown 6 22%
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