Katz, Joel2013-11-022013-11-021997In T.S. Jensen, J.A. Turner, & Z. Wiesenfeld-Hallin (Eds.), Proceedings of the 8th World Congress on Pain. Progress in pain research and management (pp. 231-240). Seattle, WA: IASP Press.978-0-931092-18-3http://hdl.handle.net/10315/26587Most patients undergoing major surgery heal within weeks and do not develop long-term pain. Certain surgical procedures, however, are followed by a relatively high rate of long-term pain and discomfort. For example, follow-up studies of patients years after surgery have reported prevalence rates of 30-55% for arm pain after axillary node dissection for breast cancer (Maunsell et al. 1993), postmastectomy scar pain (Kmner et al. 1992; Tasmuth et al. 1996), postamputation phantom limb pain, and post-thoracotomy. chest wall pain (Dajczman et al. 1991; Katz et al. 1996b).en-USpain, postoperative, central sensitization, phantom limb pain, postthoracotomy pain, preemptive analgesiaBook Chapterhttp://www.iasp-pain.org/AM/Template.cfm?Section=IASP_Press_Books2&Template=/CM/HTMLDisplay.cfm&ContentID=7506