Effects of non-pharmacological sympathetic sudomotor denervation on sweating in humans with essential palmar hyperhidrosis

Clinical Biochemistry

Volumn 30, Issue 2, 1997, Pages 171-175

  Noppen, Marc ^a,b   Sevens, Claude ^a   Vincken, Walter G ^a  

^a FREE UNIVERSITY OF BRUSSELS   (Belgium)

^b UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL BRUSSELS   (Belgium)

Author keywords

essential hyperhidrosis; pilocarpine iontophoresis; sweat production; sympathectomy

Indexed keywords

ADRENERGIC RECEPTOR BLOCKING; ADULT; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; DENERVATION; FEMALE; HUMAN; HYPERHIDROSIS; IONTOPHORESIS; MALE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SWEAT GLAND; SWEAT TEST; SYMPATHECTOMY; SYMPATHETIC INNERVATION;

ADULT; ELECTROLYTES; FEMALE; FOREARM; HAND; HUMANS; HYPERHIDROSIS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PARASYMPATHOMIMETICS; PILOCARPINE; SWEAT; SWEAT GLANDS; SYMPATHECTOMY;

EID: 0030933338     PISSN: 00099120     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0009-9120(96)00165-8     Document Type: Article

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