Evaluation of Chronic Pain After Nerve Section During Thoracotomy
WithdrawnNot applicableNCT00653367
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This study has no listed site in Canada in this snapshot. It is included as part of the worldwide chronic pain corpus.
Brief summary (from the registry)
The purpose of this study is to investigate if controlled nerve section reduces chronic pain after thoracotomy.
Study details
- Official title
- Post Thoracotomy Pain After Nerve Section
- Conditions
- Lung Cancer
- Interventions
- Procedure: Nerve section
- Sponsor
- Copenhagen University Hospital, Rigshospitalet
- Start date
- 2011-12
- Primary completion
- 2012-04
- Sex
- All
- Age range
- from 18 Years to 75 Years
- Results posted
- No results posted in this snapshot
- Countries
- Denmark
- Total sites listed
- 1
Eligibility criteria
Show eligibility criteria (verbatim from the registry)
Inclusion Criteria: * Patients included for anterior or lateral thoracotomy Exclusion Criteria: * Unable to give consent due to age, cognitive reduction or otherwise * Neurological disease or symptoms affection thoracic area * Chronic pain prior to surgery * Inability to supply the patient with an epidural catheter * Pneumonectomy * Prolonged infection at surgical site * Invasive tumor growth * Need for repeated surgery at site
Source: ClinicalTrials.gov (US National Library of Medicine), snapshot October 2026. Check the registry for current recruiting status. Record: https://clinicaltrials.gov/study/NCT00653367