Thorascopic sympathectomy
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[Usefulness of bilateral sympathectomy using video-assisted thorascopic surgery in the treatment of essential hyperhidrosis].
Essential, idiopathic, or primary hyperhidrosis is defined as excessive sweating in certain areas of the body due to factors unrelated to other disease. Clinical presentation can be categorized as palmar, plantar, axillary, or craniofacial. Medical treatment (aluminium salts, iontophoresis, anticholinergic drugs, and alpha2-agonists) is of questionable effectiveness. Intradermal injections of b...
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PURPOSE To report two cases of Horner's syndrome. One presented after the ablation of a schwannoma of the cervical sympathetic chain, the second after upper thorascopic sympathectomy for primary palmar hyperhidrosis. METHODS A 42-year-old man underwent excision of a left neck mass found during routine physical examination. A 20-year-old girl with axillary and palmar hyperhidrosis was treated ...
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عنوان ژورنال: British Journal of Anaesthesia
سال: 1997
ISSN: 0007-0912
DOI: 10.1093/bja/79.5.688