Treatment of unilateral compensatory sweating after endoscopical thoracic sympathectomy for general hyperhidrosis with botulinum toxin A

Dermatologic Surgery

Volumn 32, Issue 5, 2006, Pages 745-748

  Bechara, Falk Georges ^a,d   Sand, Michael ^a   Moussa, Georg ^a   Sand, Daniel ^b   Altmeyer, Peter ^a   Hoffmann, Klaus ^a   Schmidt, Johannes ^c  

^a RUHR UNIVERSITY BOCHUM   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF WITTEN HERDECKE   (Germany)

^d ST JOSEF HOSPITAL   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALCOHOL; ALDEHYDE; ALUMINUM CHLORIDE; BENZATROPINE; BENZODIAZEPINE DERIVATIVE; BORIC ACID; BORNAPRINE; BOTULINUM TOXIN A; CHOLINERGIC RECEPTOR BLOCKING AGENT; CLONIDINE; DIAZEPAM; FORMALDEHYDE; HERBACEOUS AGENT; OXYBUTYNIN; PERMANGANATE POTASSIUM; SALICYLIC ACID; SWEATOSAN; TANNIN; TOPICAL AGENT;

AGED; ARTICLE; CASE REPORT; CONSTIPATION; DIAGNOSTIC TEST; DRUG TREATMENT FAILURE; DRY EYE; ENDOSCOPIC SURGERY; HUMAN; HYPERHIDROSIS; MALE; MINOR IODINE STARCH TEST; MYDRIASIS; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUALITY OF LIFE; SAGE; SWEATING; SYMPATHECTOMY; SYSTEMIC THERAPY; THORACOSCOPY; TOPICAL TREATMENT; UNILATERAL COMPENSATORY HYPERHIDROSIS; XEROSTOMIA;

AGED; BOTULINUM TOXIN TYPE A; HUMANS; HYPERHIDROSIS; MALE; NEUROMUSCULAR AGENTS; SYMPATHECTOMY; THORACIC SURGERY, VIDEO-ASSISTED;

EID: 33646677469     PISSN: 10760512     EISSN: 15244725     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1524-4725.2006.32150.x     Document Type: Article

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