Quantification of eccrine sweat glands with acetylcholine sweat-spot test and anatomical redistribution of sweating after T2-T3 thoracoscopic sympathicolysis

Surgical Endoscopy

Volumn 23, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 321-326

  Ramos, Ricard ^a   Masuet, Cristina ^b   Badia, Maria ^b   Perna, Valerio ^b   MacIa, Ivan ^b   Escobar, Ignacio ^b   Villalonga, Rosa ^b   Moya, Juan ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BARCELONA   (Spain)

^b HOSPITAL UNIVERSITARI DE BELLVITGE   (Spain)

Author keywords

Hyperhidrosis; Sympathicolysis; Thoracoscopy

Indexed keywords

ACETYLCHOLINE; ADRENERGIC RECEPTOR BLOCKING AGENT; CHOLINERGIC RECEPTOR STIMULATING AGENT;

ADULT; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; HAND PALM; HUMAN; HYPERHIDROSIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE; SWEAT GLAND; SWEAT TEST; THORACOSCOPIC SYMPATHICOLYSIS; ADOLESCENT; CHEMICAL SYMPATHECTOMY; CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; DRUG EFFECT; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; HAND; MALE; PATHOLOGY; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; STIMULATION; SWEATING; THORACOSCOPY;

ACETYLCHOLINE; ADOLESCENT; ADULT; CHOLINERGIC AGENTS; ECCRINE GLANDS; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HAND; HUMANS; HYPERHIDROSIS; MALE; STIMULATION, CHEMICAL; SWEATING; SYMPATHECTOMY, CHEMICAL; SYMPATHOLYTICS; THORACOSCOPY; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 65249106541     PISSN: 09302794     EISSN: 14322218     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00464-008-9922-z     Document Type: Article

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