Sympathicotomy affects cutaneous blood flow, temperature, and sympathicus-mediated reflexes

Acta Neurologica Scandinavica

Volumn 118, Issue 6, 2008, Pages 402-406

  Koskinen, L O D ^a,b   Blomstedt, P ^a  

^a UMEÅ UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

^b UMEÅ UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Blood flow; Hyperhidrosis; Laser Doppler; Sympathetic nervous system; Temperature; Transcranial Doppler

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BLOOD FLOW VELOCITY; DOPPLER ECHOGRAPHY; FEMALE; FINGER BLOOD FLOW; HUMAN; HYPERHIDROSIS; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MIDDLE CEREBRAL ARTERY; PROVOCATION; SKIN BLOOD FLOW; SYMPATHECTOMY; SYMPATHETIC REFLEX; TEMPERATURE; TRANSTHORACIC ENDOSCOPIC SYMPATHICOTOMY;

ADULT; ARTERIES; BODY TEMPERATURE; CEREBRAL ARTERIES; CEREBROVASCULAR CIRCULATION; FEMALE; GANGLIA, SYMPATHETIC; GANGLIONECTOMY; HAND; HUMANS; HYPERHIDROSIS; MALE; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; REFLEX, ABNORMAL; REGIONAL BLOOD FLOW; SKIN; SWEAT GLANDS; SYMPATHECTOMY; SYMPATHETIC FIBERS, POSTGANGLIONIC; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 55949120770     PISSN: 00016314     EISSN: 16000404     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1600-0404.2008.01046.x     Document Type: Article

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