Hyperhidrosis: What is it and Why Does it Occur?

Thoracic Surgery Clinics

Volumn 18, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 125-132

  Shargall, Yaron ^a,c   Spratt, Ernie ^a,c   Zeldin, Robert A ^b,c  

^a ST JOSEPH S HEALTH CENTRE   (Canada)

^b TORONTO EAST GENERAL HOSPITAL   (Canada)

^c UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BOTULINUM TOXIN;

DISEASE COURSE; EMOTIONALITY; ENDOSCOPY; GANGLIONECTOMY; HEAT; HUMAN; HYPERHIDROSIS; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PATIENT SELECTION; PREVALENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIOTHERAPY; REVIEW; SWEAT GLAND; SYMPATHETIC TRUNK; THORACOSCOPY; THORACOTOMY; TREATMENT INDICATION; VAGOTOMY;

HUMANS; HYPERHIDROSIS; SYMPATHETIC NERVOUS SYSTEM;

EID: 41949137499     PISSN: 15474127     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.thorsurg.2008.01.001     Document Type: Review

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