Data record for the article: TriggerPoint Injection for Post-Mastectomy Pain: A Simple Intervention with High Rate of Long-Term Relief

This
data record provides details of the data supporting the claims of the related article:
“TriggerPoint Injection for
Post-Mastectomy Pain: A Simple Intervention with High Rate of Long-Term Relief”.

The
related study aimed to assess the rate of long-term resolution of post-mastectomy
pain syndrome (PMPS) after trigger point injections to relieve neuropathic
pain.

Type of data:
Participant characteristics; outcomes from the intervention

Subject of
data: Women presenting with clinical symptoms consistent with PMPS.

Sample size:
52 patients

Population
characteristics: Women (aged 31-92) who underwent partial mastectomy with
reduction mammoplasty or mastectomy with or without reconstruction.

Recruitment:
Patients from a breast surgery practice at the University of California San
Francisco Breast Care Center

Date of data
collection: August 2010 to April 2018

Geographic
location: United States of America

Trial
registration number: none

Data
access

De-identified participant
data showing

1.
study participant characteristics

2.
surgery interventions and
complications

3.
comparisons between sample
characteristics and primary outcome

are openly
available as part of this figshare metadata
record in the file ‘Khoury_PainInjectionPatients_NewCodedDatabase_Deidentified.xlsx’.

Corresponding author(s) for this study

Laura
J. Esserman ([e-mail]).

Study approval

None