Excision of sympathetic ganglia and the rami communicantes with histological confirmation offers better early and late outcomes in Video Assisted Thoracoscopic Sympathectomy

Journal of Cardiothoracic Surgery

Volumn 3, Issue 1, 2008, Pages

  Rathinam, Sridhar ^a   Nanjaiah, Prakash ^a   Sivalingam, Sivakumar ^a   Rajesh, Pala B ^a  

^a BIRMINGHAM HEARTLANDS HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ANGINA PECTORIS; ARTICLE; COMPARATIVE STUDY; FEMALE; FLUSHING; FOLLOW UP; GANGLIONECTOMY; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMAN; HYPERHIDROSIS; MALE; METHODOLOGY; MIDDLE AGED; PATHOLOGY; PATIENT SATISFACTION; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; SYMPATHETIC GANGLION; THORAX SURGERY; TIME; TREATMENT OUTCOME; VERTEBRA;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ANGINA PECTORIS; FEMALE; FLUSHING; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; GANGLIA, SYMPATHETIC; GANGLIONECTOMY; HUMANS; HYPERHIDROSIS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PATIENT SATISFACTION; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX; THORACIC SURGERY, VIDEO-ASSISTED; THORACIC VERTEBRAE; TIME FACTORS; TREATMENT OUTCOME; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 51549120556     PISSN: None     EISSN: 17498090     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1749-8090-3-50     Document Type: Article

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