Synonym(s)
Amputation novelty; Grain new novelty
DefinitionThis section has been translated automatically.
Regenerative, tumour-like growth of severed peripheral nerve endings, e.g. after an operation or amputation.
Clinical featuresThis section has been translated automatically.
Usually clinically less apparent, pressure- or spontaneously painful, well definable nodule (rarely formation of a larger nodule), which can be palpated in the deep dermis or subcutaneously. Typical are radiating pain and paraesthesias. Only in exceptional cases does the formation of organoid tissue formations such as onion skin-like, palpable structures occur.
Clinical variants are:
- Morton's neuroma
- Digital Pacini Neuromas (tactile neuroma)
- Neuromas of rudimentary additional fingers
HistologyThis section has been translated automatically.
It impresses vertebrally aggregated, subcutaneously or intracutaneously stored bundles of medullary nerves, with proliferated interstitial connective tissue in between, which is partly myxoidally or also inflammationally altered.
TherapyThis section has been translated automatically.
In case of pain, functional or cosmetic disorder: excision.
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Prof. Dr. med. Peter Altmeyer