Perioperative predictors of long-term pain following surgery
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Date
1997
Authors
Katz, Joel
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Abstract
Most 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).
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pain, postoperative, central sensitization, phantom limb pain, postthoracotomy pain, preemptive analgesia
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In 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.