man loses several pounds of flesh due to bacterial infection

[msu17 0]

I was just thinking...POOR GUY...not only does he have a thigh ####### but he has a sweaty thigh #######. So much for getting a BJ with all that ball sweat.

I think it probably wouldn't sweat... most sebaceous glands would be lost during the skin harvesting unless they left the entire dermal and epidermal layers plus some underlying muscle tissue underneath intact.

On a side note... after the patient heals how much phantom pain/sensation could he feel? And on a sexual side note... that BJ might feel to him for a while like getting sucked on the thigh the tissue came from.

I wouldn't think he should feel much. Phantom pain is primarily from the brain rewiring senses to the arm sense part (for instance) after an arm is amputated. This wouldn't really be the case here. You don't feel phantom pain from skin grafts or skin removal procedures, so I doubt you would here.

That's right. B/C the skin graft would remove the majority of the nerve endings. However if the nerves were left intact, as I've seen a couple of procedures that preserve more than upper dermal tissue... then it does take a while for somatosensory cortex to reorganize its receptive fields so that the sensation is matched to the stimulus.

And it would be more like phantom arousal of the thigh... ()

Yes, that would take some time, but it would reorganize. I wouldn't think that could really be classified as phantom pain though. And can you please stop saying that's right? I know it's right or I wouldn't have said it.

[HAL 9000 96]

I was just thinking...POOR GUY...not only does he have a thigh ####### but he has a sweaty thigh #######. So much for getting a BJ with all that ball sweat.

I think it probably wouldn't sweat... most sebaceous glands would be lost during the skin harvesting unless they left the entire dermal and epidermal layers plus some underlying muscle tissue underneath intact.

On a side note... after the patient heals how much phantom pain/sensation could he feel? And on a sexual side note... that BJ might feel to him for a while like getting sucked on the thigh the tissue came from.

I wouldn't think he should feel much. Phantom pain is primarily from the brain rewiring senses to the arm sense part (for instance) after an arm is amputated. This wouldn't really be the case here. You don't feel phantom pain from skin grafts or skin removal procedures, so I doubt you would here.

That's right. B/C the skin graft would remove the majority of the nerve endings. However if the nerves were left intact, as I've seen a couple of procedures that preserve more than upper dermal tissue... then it does take a while for somatosensory cortex to reorganize its receptive fields so that the sensation is matched to the stimulus.

And it would be more like phantom arousal of the thigh... ( )

Yes, that would take some time, but it would reorganize. I wouldn't think that could really be classified as phantom pain though. And can you please stop saying that's right? I know it's right or I wouldn't have said it.

Ooooohhhhhhhhh

Med students aren't correct all the time (and neither am I. HAL 9000 otoh... )

(I did take the M1 Neuroscience class too, on top of all my other Neuro courses)

So, yes, you are right. Its not technically phantom pain since we're not talking about the perception of pain in that instance. Neuronal plasticity isn't exactly a done deal when it comes to cortical reorganization of somatosensory cortex.

Edited November 18, 2008 by HAL 9000

[Niels Bohr 72]

Med students are just med students.

That is why there's a high GPA requirements to get to MED School in the first place. It's accuracy. Don't know why Engineering doesn't happen to have the same requirement since it also requires accuracy. Although, Engineering students in grad school have high GPA, it's not a major requirement in the admission process.

[Amby 490]

Med students are just med students.

That is why there's a high GPA requirements to get to MED School in the first place. It's accuracy. Don't know why Engineering doesn't happen to have the same requirement since it also requires accuracy. Although, Engineering students in grad school have high GPA, it's not a major requirement in the admission process.

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