title: [Segmental arterial sympathectomies at the level of the fingers].
abstract: 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.
authors.affiliation: SOS Main, Clinique Saint-Joseph, Nîmes.
authors.forename: R
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Gomis
authors.forename: J
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Rakotomavo
authors.forename: N
authors.initials: N
authors.lastname: Louchai
authors.forename: Y
authors.initials: Y
authors.lastname: Allieu
mesh_terms: 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*
vernacular_title: Sympathectomies artérielles segmentaires au niveau des doigts.