Frey's syndrome: incidence related to skin flap thickness in parotidectomy.
Symptomatic gustatory sweating and inflammation of the skin over the site of the parotidectomy occurs in from 5 to 25% of cases. In a series of 164 studied, 6 of 48 patients with thin flaps developed significant Frey's syndrome. These figures are significant at the 95% confidence level.
D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D010306:Parotid Gland / Q000601:surgery*; D011183:Postoperative Complications; D012867:Skin / Q000294:innervation; D013524:Surgical Flaps / Q000009:adverse effects* / Q000379:methods; D013545:Sweat Glands / Q000294:innervation; D013547:Sweating, Gustatory / Q000209:etiology*