Chronic Pain After Thoracotomy (Video Assisted Thoracic Surgery - VATS)

Rigshospitalet

Status: Completed

Conditions: Thoracic Surgery, Video Assisted; Neuropathic Pain; Chronic Pain

Study type: Observational

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT01068457

VATS-hb2008-059

Details and patient eligibility

About

This is an explorative study investigating potential nerve injury after VATS.

Enrollment: 48 estimated patients

Sex: All

Ages: 19+ years old

Volunteers: No Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• Able to understand and give consent
• Can read
• Residing in Denmark

Exclusion criteria

• Unable to understand the written information in Danish
• Abuse (Medicine, Drugs, Alcohol)
• Severe psychiatric Illness
• Conflicting neurological disease

Trial design

48 participants in 2 patient groups

PTPS

Description:

Patients with pain after VATS

Pain free

Description:

Patients reporting no pain late after VAT