Grossly, this so-called amputation neuroma consists of a bulbous swelling of the proximal end of a severed nerve. It is a proliferative rather than a neoplastic reaction.

He was especially interested in the role of the neuroma, a type of painful nerve growth common after amputation. Romero-Ortega and his colleagues began their research with two groups of lab rats.

Morton’s Neuroma is not a cancer as it sounds but rather an enlargement of the interdigital nerve as it courses between the metatarsals of […] ...