Clinical experience in 397 consecutive thoracoscopic sympathectomies

Annals of Thoracic Surgery

Volumn 80, Issue 3, 2005, Pages 1063-1066

  Kwong, King F ^a   Cooper, Lindsay B ^a   Bennett, Leslie A ^a   Burrows, Whitney ^a   Gamliel, Ziv ^a   Krasna, Mark J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; CHILD; CHYLOTHORAX; COMPLEX REGIONAL PAIN SYNDROME TYPE I; CONTROLLED STUDY; EYELID RECONSTRUCTION; FEMALE; HORNER SYNDROME; HUMAN; HYPERESTHESIA; HYPERHIDROSIS; ISCHEMIA; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MORTALITY; PLEURA EFFUSION; PNEUMOTHORAX; POSTOPERATIVE PERIOD; PREOPERATIVE PERIOD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REOPERATION; REVIEW; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE; SWEATING; SYMPATHECTOMY; SYMPTOMATOLOGY; THORACOSCOPY;

EID: 23944447107     PISSN: 00034975     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.athoracsur.2005.03.076     Document Type: Article

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