[Thoracoscopic sympathectomy in the surgical treatment of axillary and palmar hyperhidrosis].
47 patients with axillary palmar hyperhydrosis underwent this surgery. There were 36 women (76.6%) and 11 men (23.4%) among them. The sympathetic trunk has been coagulated on the level between 2d and 4th ribs on both sides. There were no surgical mortality in this group. Nine patients (9.1%) had a pneumothorax, one patient (2.1%) had a subcutaneous emphysema, the other one had pneumonia and one had wound pyosis. In 43 cases the result of the surgery was very good. In 2 cases bilateral relapse and in 2 cases marked compensatory hyperhydrosis were resistered.
Anikin
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Graham
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MacGuigan
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D000328:Adult; D000768:Anesthesia, General; D001365:Axilla; D005260:Female; D005500:Follow-Up Studies; D006225:Hand; D006801:Humans; D006945:Hyperhidrosis / Q000601:surgery*; D008297:Male; D011030:Pneumothorax / Q000453:epidemiology; D011182:Postoperative Care; D011183:Postoperative Complications / Q000453:epidemiology; D013562:Sympathectomy / Q000379:methods*; D013906:Thoracoscopy / Q000379:methods*
Torakoskopicheskaia simpatéktomiia v khirurgicheskom lechenii gipergidroza.