[Segmental arterial sympathectomies at the level of the fingers].
The authors relate their experience of thirty digital artery sympathectomies in twenty-four fingers. Ten men and two women were operated: six crush injuries to fingers, three Raynaud's disease and two Buerger disease and one scleroderma. All presented digital vascular insufficiency. The pre-operative arteriogram always revealed more extensive thrombosis than suspected by the clinical symptoms. In this way we performed a segmental arterial sympathectomy depending on the site of the thrombosed artery. The follow-up was five years. The immediate postoperative results were excellent. Five years later the results depended on the nature of the initial disease.
Gomis
R
R
SOS Main, Clinique Saint-Joseph, Nîmes.
Rakotomavo
J
J
Louchai
N
N
Allieu
Y
Y
D000792:Angiography; D005260:Female; D005385:Fingers / Q000098:blood supply* / Q000294:innervation; D005500:Follow-Up Studies; D006801:Humans; D007511:Ischemia / Q000150:complications* / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging; D008297:Male; D011300:Preoperative Care / Q000379:methods; D013562:Sympathectomy / Q000379:methods / Q000592:standards*; D013927:Thrombosis / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging / Q000209:etiology / Q000601:surgery*
Sympathectomies artérielles segmentaires au niveau des doigts.