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Chronic Pain After Video-assisted Thoracoscopic Surgery (VATS) Surgery for Pneumothorax

TerminatedNot applicableNCT00969423
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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 study will investigate characteristics of chronic pain after VATS surgery with two different sizes of videoscopic equipment.

Study details

Official title
Chronic Pain After VATS Surgery for Pneumothorax
Conditions
  • Pneumothorax
Interventions
  • Device: 5mm videoscope
  • Device: 10mm videoscope
Sponsor
Copenhagen University Hospital, Rigshospitalet
Start date
2009-10
Primary completion
2011-12
Sex
All
Age range
from 18 Years to 40 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: * PSP * 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 * Conversion to open surgery * Use of neuroaxial analgesia * Use of electric cauterizer necessitated * Additional thoracic surgery in the investigation period

Source: ClinicalTrials.gov (US National Library of Medicine), snapshot October 2026. Check the registry for current recruiting status. Record: https://clinicaltrials.gov/study/NCT00969423