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Review
. 2010 Jul;45(7-8):488-93; quiz 494.
doi: 10.1055/s-0030-1262478. Epub 2010 Jul 21.

[Chronic postoperative pain. Epidemiology and psychological risk factors]

[Article in German]
Violeta Dimova  1 , Stefan Lautenbacher
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[Chronic postoperative pain. Epidemiology and psychological risk factors]

[Article in German]
Violeta Dimova et al. Anasthesiol Intensivmed Notfallmed Schmerzther. 2010 Jul.

Abstract

Acute postoperative pain is a still inevitable accompaniment of surgery. Up to 50% of the patients undergoing surgery--depending on its type--develop later on chronic postoperative pain. Psychological variables as minor depression, anxiety and pain-related catastrophizing as well as full-blown mental disorders are known risk factors. The relationship between such variables and postoperative pain is likely reciprocal.

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