Observations on neuroma, with cases and histories of the disease.

  • Wood, William, 1783-1858.
Date:
[1829]
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Credit: Observations on neuroma, with cases and histories of the disease. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    ating pain, altogether independent of, though much increased by pressure, in parts at a considerable distance from the tumour, but in the direction of the trunk or branches of the affected nerve. The powers of sensation, and of voluntary motion, in the parts supplied by the nerve, are, in general, wonder¬ fully little impaired, unless by the severe pain which occurs in consequence of the pressure at¬ tending motion of the limb. Occasionally, how¬ ever, there is a degree of prickling pain, alternating with numbness in the limb; and pains darting downwards in the direction of the nervous branches. Neuroma differs from painful subcutaneous tu¬ bercle, in not being accompanied with the well-mark¬ ed paroxysms of pain, which take place, without any apparent cause, in the latter disease. Neuroma has been known to arise from an injury, particularly from a bruise when the skin remained entire, and from puncture. There is a very inte¬ resting case recorded by Mr Denmark, surgeon to Haslar Hospital, in which a tumour of the radial nerve was formed, in consequence of a wound by a musket ball, part of which had been broken off, by its collision with the os brachii, and had been lodged in the nerve Most frequently, however, no par¬ ticular cause can be assigned for the appearance of the tumour. Neuroma may generally be distinguishedfrom other tumours by the severity of the pain produced by pres- * Medico-Chirurgical Transactions of London, vol. iv. p. 48,