Stratified Analysis of Clinical Outcomes in Thoracoscopic Sympathicotomy for Hyperhidrosis

Annals of Thoracic Surgery

Volumn 85, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 390-394

  Kwong, King F ^a   Hobbs, Jessica L ^a   Cooper, Lindsay B ^a   Burrows, Whitney ^a   Gamliel, Ziv ^b   Krasna, Mark J ^b  

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

^b St Joseph Medical Center   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALUMINUM CHLORIDE; BOTULINUM TOXIN; GLYCOPYRRONIUM BROMIDE;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ARTICLE; CLINICAL FEATURE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE COURSE; DISEASE SEVERITY; FEMALE; FLUSHING; FOLLOW UP; HUMAN; HYPERHIDROSIS; IONTOPHORESIS; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PLEURA EFFUSION; PNEUMOTHORAX; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; POSTOPERATIVE PERIOD; PREOPERATIVE EVALUATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUALITY OF LIFE; SCHOOL CHILD; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE; SWEATING; SYMPATHECTOMY; SYMPTOM; TREATMENT INDICATION; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; CHILD; COHORT STUDIES; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HUMANS; HYPERHIDROSIS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PATIENT SATISFACTION; PROBABILITY; QUALITY OF LIFE; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RISK ASSESSMENT; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX; THORACIC NERVES; THORACIC SURGERY, VIDEO-ASSISTED; THORACOSCOPY; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 38349180505     PISSN: 00034975     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.athoracsur.2007.08.001     Document Type: Article

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