Analysis of clamping versus cutting of T3 sympathetic nerve for severe palmar hyperhidrosis

Journal of Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery

Volumn 140, Issue 5, 2010, Pages 984-989

  Yanagihara, Ted K ^a   Ibrahimiye, Ali ^b   Harris, Catherine ^c   Hirsch, Joy ^a   Gorenstein, Lyall A ^b  

^a Och Spine at New York Presbyterian Hospitals   (United States)

^b College of Physicians and Surgeons ^*  (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ARTICLE; CHILD; COMPARATIVE STUDY; DISEASE SEVERITY; ENDOSCOPIC THORACIC SYMPATHECTOMY; FACE; FEMALE; FOOT; HAND; HUMAN; HYPERHIDROSIS; INTERVIEW; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PATIENT SATISFACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUALITY OF LIFE; SCHOOL CHILD; SEVERE PALMAR HYPERHIDROSIS; SURGICAL APPROACH; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE; SYMPATHECTOMY; SYMPATHETIC NERVE; THIGH; TRUNK; INNERVATION; LIGATION; MIDDLE AGED; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PROCEDURES; QUESTIONNAIRE; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX; SWEATING; THORACOSCOPY; TIME; TREATMENT OUTCOME; YOUNG ADULT;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; CHILD; CONSTRICTION; FEMALE; HAND; HUMANS; HYPERHIDROSIS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PATIENT SATISFACTION; QUALITY OF LIFE; QUESTIONNAIRES; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX; SWEATING; SYMPATHECTOMY; THORACOSCOPY; TIME FACTORS; TREATMENT OUTCOME; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 77958000500     PISSN: 00225223     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jtcvs.2010.08.014     Document Type: Article

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