Side Effects and Complications of Surgery for Hyperhidrosis

Thoracic Surgery Clinics

Volumn 18, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 193-207

  Dumont, Pascal ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL OF TOURS   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BOTULINUM TOXIN;

ATELECTASIS; BLEEDING; BRACHIAL PLEXUS INJURY; BRADYCARDIA; BRAIN EDEMA; CHYLOTHORAX; CLIMATE; COLD SENSITIVITY; DYSESTHESIA; HEART; HEMATOTHORAX; HORNER SYNDROME; HUMAN; HYDROTHORAX; HYPERHIDROSIS; LUNG EMBOLISM; LUNG FUNCTION; PAIN; PEROPERATIVE CARE; PLEURA EFFUSION; PNEUMOTHORAX; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PSYCHOLOGY; RECURRENT DISEASE; REVIEW; RHINITIS; RISK ASSESSMENT; SUBCUTANEOUS EMPHYSEMA; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE; SWEAT GLAND DISEASE; SYMPATHECTOMY; TASTE; WOUND INFECTION;

HUMANS; HYPERHIDROSIS; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; SYMPATHECTOMY; TREATMENT FAILURE;

EID: 41949138373     PISSN: 15474127     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.thorsurg.2008.01.007     Document Type: Review

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