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The prevalence of chronic postmastectomy pain syndrome in female breast cancer survivors

Variawa, Muhammed Luqmaan; Scribante, Juan; Perrie, Helen; Chetty, Sean (Taylor & Francis Group, 2016)

Background: Breast cancer is one of the most common cancer diagnoses in women. Surgical treatment is indicated in most patients. Postmastectomy pain syndrome (PMPS) is a debilitating neuropathic pain syndrome that develops ...
Acute postoperative pain in 1 231 patients at a developing country referral hospital : incidence and risk factors

Murray, Adriaan Albertus; Retief, Francois Wilhelm (Medpharm Publications, 2016)

Background: Postoperative pain is poorly studied in developing countries. At a Western Cape referral hospital, it was aimed to determine the incidence of acute postoperative pain, to identify populations associated with a ...