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. 2012 Apr 27;7(2):113–120. doi: 10.1159/000338579

Table 2.

Cancer pain syndromes (examples)

  • 1

    Cancer related pain

    • 1.1

      Cancer related neuropathic pain

      • – Central (e.g., Leptomeningeal metastases)

      • – Different cranial nerve neuropathies (‘mixed picture’)

      • – Peripheral (e.g., bone and tissue metastases)

      • – Painful radiculopathy

      • – Peripheral mono and polyneuropathies

    • 1.2

      Cancer related somatic nociceptive pain (examples)

      • – Local bone pain

      • – Multifocal bone pain (e.g., diffuse bone metastases, bone marrow expansion)

    • 1.3

      Cancer related visceral nociceptive pain (examples)

      • – Hepatic distension

      • – Intestinal obstruction

      • – Peritoneal carcinomatosis

      • – Retroperitoneal syndrome

      • – Ureteric obstruction

  • 2

    Treatment related pain syndromes

    • 2.1

      Chemotherapy

      • – Peripheral neuropathy

    • 2.2

      Radiatiotherapy

      • – Plexopathy

      • – Myelopathy

      • – Osteoradionecrosis

      • – Lymphoedema

      • – Enteritis and proctitis

    • 2.3

      Surgery

      • – Postmastectomy and other chronic postoperative pain syndromes

      • – Stump pain

      • – Phantom pain

    • 2.4

      Long-term steroids

      • – Osteoporosis

      • – Aseptic necrosis (especially femoral or humeral head)

      • – Vertebral compression fractures