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The patient is a 52-year-old female with a past medical history of complex regional pain syndrome (CRPS) type I (L-1, L-2, L-3) who is scheduled for left needle localization lumpectomy for a breast mass of unknown type. Her preoperative ultrasound and mammogram were not consistent with tumor or cyst. The suspicion was that this mass represents a retained foreign body from prior port-a-cath removal. Her CRPS began in 1994 after a left thumb sprain (L-3) but is now present in all four extremities but worst in left upper extremity. Additional past medical history includes severe pain flairs with prior surgery (L-5), which have all required inpatient admission, depression, cervical epidural abscess, and subsequent decompression.
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Furnish, T. (2014). Complex Regional Pain Syndrome. In: Benumof, J. (eds) Clinical Anesthesiology. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4614-8696-1_57
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