Effect of endoscopic thoracic sympathetic block on plantar hyperhidrosis

Archives of Surgery

Volumn 140, Issue 7, 2005, Pages 676-680

  Neumayer, Christoph ^a   Panhofer, Peter ^a   Zacherl, Johannes ^a   Bischof, Georg ^a  

^a MEDICAL UNIVERSITY OF VIENNA   (Austria)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGE DISTRIBUTION; ARTICLE; COHORT ANALYSIS; CONTROLLED STUDY; EVALUATION; FEMALE; HUMAN; HYPERHIDROSIS; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUALITY OF LIFE; TREATMENT OUTCOME; AXILLA; COMPARATIVE STUDY; FOLLOW UP; HAND; HOSPITALIZATION; METHODOLOGY; MIDDLE AGED; MINIMALLY INVASIVE SURGERY; PATIENT SATISFACTION; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; RISK ASSESSMENT; SYMPATHECTOMY; THORACOSCOPY; THORAX SURGERY; VERTEBRA;

ADULT; AXILLA; COHORT STUDIES; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HAND; HUMANS; HYPERHIDROSIS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PATIENT SATISFACTION; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; QUALITY OF LIFE; RISK ASSESSMENT; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX; SURGICAL PROCEDURES, MINIMALLY INVASIVE; SYMPATHECTOMY; THORACIC SURGERY, VIDEO-ASSISTED; THORACIC VERTEBRAE; THORACOSCOPY; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 23244467358     PISSN: 00040010     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1001/archsurg.140.7.676     Document Type: Article

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