Tanaka Yohei, Ueno Takaaki, Miura Toshiki
Rehabilitation Medicine, JR Tokyo General Hospital, Tokyo, JPN.
Orthopedic Surgery, JR Tokyo General Hospital, Tokyo, JPN.
Cureus. 2023 Jun 27;15(6):e41024. doi: 10.7759/cureus.41024. eCollection 2023 Jun.
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.
我们报告了两例截肢术后残端骨缩短的病例。病例1是一名57岁男性，因创伤性经肱骨截肢。剩余肱骨在八个月内缩短了3.5厘米。病例2是一名27岁男性，因创伤性经胫骨截肢。剩余胫骨在72个月内缩短了1.4厘米。这两例截肢原因相同，但截肢部位、年龄和病程不同。很少有研究探讨截肢术后残端的骨长度。一般认为截肢后残端骨长度不会改变。然而，截肢后残端的残余骨可能会缩短。
