Patients undergone either laparoscopic or vaginal hysterectomy will called for a clinical examination 1-3 years after surgery, if they suffer from pain 6 months after surgery. The aims of the study are: 1. to reveal whether the pain is postsurgical in nature, or if there are any other reasons for the pain. 2. to reveal the type of pain, neuropathic, nociceptive or idiopathic. 3. to reveal the impact of pain on quality of life.
Patients undergone either laparoscopic or vaginal hysterectomy will called for a clinical examination 1-3 years after surgery, if they suffer from pain 6 months after surgery. All patients were treated in Pirkanmaa District Hospital and the anesthesia was either propofol-infusion or sevoflurane gas with remifentanil-infusion. 6months after the surgery, questionnaires about pelvic pain were sent to the patients. Patients still having pain at that time, were invited for detailed sensory and gynecological examinations.
Study Type
OBSERVATIONAL
Enrollment
16
Tampere University Hospital
Tampere, Finland
Type of Chronic Pain After Hysterectomy
Number of participants with probable neuropathic, possible neuropathic, pain had subsided and other type of pain.
Time frame: 1-3 years after hysterectomy
Quality of Life After Hysterectomy
Quality of life as measured by the SF-36, which consists of 8 scales.
Time frame: 1-3 years after hysterectomy
Is the Pain Due to Hysterectomy?
Number of patients having posthysterectomy pain versus other pain
Time frame: 1-3 years
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