Autoamputation is the spontaneous detachment (amputation) of an appendage from the body. This is not to be confused with self-amputation. It is usually due to destruction of the blood vessels feeding an extremity such as the finger tips. Once the vessels are destroyed, the tissue is starved of oxygen and dies, which is often followed by gangrene.
Autoamputation is a feature of ainhum, cryoglobulinemia and thromboangiitis obliterans. In 1881, Thornton made the case of autoamputation.
Ida No over 4 years ago
“But, when he told you to watch your hands when you closed the car door, you listened.”
PO' DAWG over 4 years ago
Was your Grandfather a shop teacher?
PO' DAWG over 4 years ago
Did your Grandfather owe a gambling debt more than once?
gopher gofer over 4 years ago
was his nickname ‘lucky’…?
katina.cooper over 4 years ago
Be thankful that grandpa didn’t swim with the fishes.
Night-Gaunt49[Bozo is Boffo] over 4 years ago
Here is something worse that is real:
Autoamputation is the spontaneous detachment (amputation) of an appendage from the body. This is not to be confused with self-amputation. It is usually due to destruction of the blood vessels feeding an extremity such as the finger tips. Once the vessels are destroyed, the tissue is starved of oxygen and dies, which is often followed by gangrene.
Autoamputation is a feature of ainhum, cryoglobulinemia and thromboangiitis obliterans. In 1881, Thornton made the case of autoamputation.