One-Year Follow-Up After Thoracoscopic Sympathectomy for Hyperhidrosis

Annals of Thoracic Surgery

Volumn 83, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 358-359

  Reisfeld, Rafael ^a  

^a Beverly Hills Medical Center   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AXILLA; BRACHIAL PLEXUS; CLAMP; DISEASE SEVERITY; ENDOSCOPIC SURGERY; ENDOSCOPIC THORACIC SYMPATHECTOMY; FACE; HAND PALM; HUMAN; HYPERHIDROSIS; LETTER; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PATIENT SATISFACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SUCTION; SYMPATHECTOMY; SYMPATHETIC GANGLION; SYMPTOM; THORACIC SPINAL CORD; THORACOSCOPY; TREATMENT FAILURE; TREATMENT INDICATION;

FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HUMANS; HYPERHIDROSIS; SYMPATHECTOMY; THORACOSCOPY; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 33845485504     PISSN: 00034975     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.athoracsur.2006.06.067     Document Type: Letter

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