ICD-11 classes
21 Symptoms, signs or clinical findings, not elsewhere...
General symptoms, signs or clinical findings
General symptoms
Pain
MG30 — Chronic pain
MG30.2 — Chronic postsurgical or post traumatic pain
MG30.21 — Chronic postsurgical pain
ICD-11 MG30.21 — Chronic postsurgical pain
Chronic postsurgical pain is chronic pain developing or increasing in intensity after a surgical procedure and persisting beyond the healing process, i.e. at least 3 months after surgery. The pain is either localised to the surgical field, projected to the innervation territory of a nerve situated in this area, or referred to a dermatome (after surgery/injury to deep somatic or visceral tissues). Other causes of pain including infection, malignancy etc. need to be excluded as well as pain continuing from a pre-existing pain problem. Dependent on type of surgery, chronic postsurgical pain often may be neuropathic pain.
It includes 7 items.
- Chronic pain after spinal surgery
- Chronic pain after herniotomy
- Chronic pain after hysterectomy
- Chronic pain after amputation
- Chronic pain after thoracotomy
- Chronic pain after breast surgery
- Chronic pain after arthroplasty
The diagnosis excludes nothing.
It has no clarifying diagnoses.