T87: Complications peculiar to reattachment and amputation

T87.3: Neuroma of amputation stump

Part of the body can be partially or fully removed. The residual body part, still on the body, is called a stump.

You have thickened nerve tissue in your stump. Nerves are a sort of wiring in the body. Nerves conduct information. The nerves use electrical impulses to do this. Nerves are important, for instance, in enabling you to sense contacts and temperatures, and to move your muscles. When a nerve has been severed, a knotty thickening can form on the nerve as it heals. The affected area may then be more sensitive to touch or it can be painful.

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