Version May 2024
| Syndrome | Characteristics |
| Post-mastectomy pain syndrome | Dull, burning, and aching pain experienced over the axilla, anterior chest wall and medial upper arm, associated with sensory loss and sometimes phantom sensations |
| May be accompanied by dysesthesia, allodynia, and scar sensitivity | |
| Pain can start acutely post-surgery and persist, or onset may occur many months or years after surgery | |
| Post-radical neck dissection pain | Often neuropathic and described as a burning or lancinating dysesthesias in the anterolateral neck extending to the shoulder; reflects injury to the cervical plexus |
| Often accompanied by sensory loss | |
| May experience neck and shoulder pain weeks to months after surgery | |
| Post-thoracotomy pain | Neuropathic pain localized to the region of the thoracotomy scar, experienced months post-surgery; when recurrent rather than persistent, high suspicion for tumor regrowth |
| Pain described as aching or burning; potentially associated with sensory and autonomic changes; may be accompanied by ipsilateral arm disability | |
| Postoperative frozen shoulder | Limited shoulder range of motion usually caused by untreated thoracotomy pain and inadequate rehabilitation |
| Post-surgery pelvic floor pain | Resembles the idiopathic syndrome of tension myalgia of the pelvic floor, with pain that occurs on standing |
| Stump pain | Neuropathic pain, described as burning, experienced at the site of a surgical scar several months to years post-amputation |
| Pain may be exacerbated by movement and is secondary to neuroma formation in the region of amputation | |
| May be improved or exacerbated by wearing of a prosthesis | |
| Phantom limb pain | Site of pain is away from amputation scar and appears to be where the absent limb was located |
| Pain is dysesthetic, often fluctuating | |
| May or may not be associated with phantom sensations, including nonspecific paresthesia and specific sensations of the limb, with or without distortions | |
| Phantom pain | Phantom breast pain following mastectomy |
| Phantom pelvic pain following hemipelvectomy | |
| Phantom rectal pain following rectal cancer surgery | |
| Phantom eye pain in patients with eye enucleation |
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