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amputation

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Amputation is the removal of a limb or other body part, which can happen due to injury, disease, or surgical procedures performed to control pain or prevent serious conditions like gangrene or cancer. It matters because it's a significant medical intervention that can preserve health or life, though it also represents a major change to a person's physical functioning and quality of life.

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Medical condition.name: Amputation
Medical condition.image: Flickr_-_The_U.S._Army_-_U.S._Army_World_Class_Athlete_Program_Paralympic.jpg
Medical condition.field: Surgery Physical medicine and rehabilitation Emergency medicine
Medical condition.caption: An amputee running with a blade prosthetic
Medical condition.complications: Phantom limb syndrome
Medical condition.causes: Trauma or intentional as part of surgery and sometimes corporal punishment

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Commons category: Amputations
native label: amputatio

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Contents

Types
Leg
Arm
Other
Self-amputation
Urgent
Causes
Circulatory disorders
Neoplasm
Trauma
Congenital anomalies
Infection
Frostbite
Athletic performance
Criminal penalties
Surgery
Method
Post-operative management
Trauma
Causes
Treatment
Epidemiology
Prevention
Prognosis
Etymology
Notable cases
Without prosthesis
With prosthesis
Other
See also
References
Further reading

Amputation is the removal of a limb or other body part by trauma, medical illness, or surgery. As a surgical measure, it is used to control pain or a disease process in the affected limb, such as malignancy or gangrene. In some cases, it is carried out on individuals as a preventive surgery for such problems. A special case is that of congenital amputation, a congenital disorder, where fetal limbs have been cut off by constrictive bands. In some countries, judicial amputation is currently used to punish people who commit crimes. Amputation has also been used as a tactic in war and acts of terrorism; it may also occur as a war injury. In some cultures and religions, minor amputations or mutilations are considered a ritual accomplishment. When done by a person, the person executing the amputation is an amputator. The oldest evidence of this practice comes from a skeleton found buried in Liang Tebo cave, East Kalimantan, Indonesian Borneo dating back to at least 31,000 years ago, where it was done when the amputee was a young child. A prosthesis or a bioelectric replantation restores sensation of the amputated limb.

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