title: Thoracoscopic sympathectomy for treatment of hyperhidrosis surgical experience and results of 30 cases.
abstract: The thoracoscopic sympathectomy in treatment of primary palmar and axillary hyperhidrosis was performed on 30 patients complaining of hyperhidrosis admitted to El Demerdash University Hospital and Ain Shams University Specialised Hospital and The Saudi German Hospital between March 1999 and March 2001. The indication of surgery was primary palmar hyperhidrosis in 24 cases and combined palmar and axillary hyperhidrosis in 6 cases. 25 cases were males and 5 cases were females. The mean age in our sample was 25.7 +/- 4.05 years. There were no major complications in our series and 4 cases were complicated by intercostal vessels bleeding which were successfully controlled by cauterization during surgery and no one of them necessitated neither thoracotomy nor application of intercostal tubes. The patients were followed up for one year after operation and only one case had recurrence of palmar hyperhidrosis.
authors.affiliation: Department of General Surgery, Faculty of Medicine, Ain Shams University, Cairo, Egypt.
authors.forename: M A
authors.initials: MA
authors.lastname: Helmy
authors.forename: H A
authors.initials: HA
authors.lastname: Ahmed
authors.forename: M F
authors.initials: MF
authors.lastname: Allam
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D006945:Hyperhidrosis / Q000601:surgery*; D008297:Male; D012008:Recurrence; D013562:Sympathectomy / Q000379:methods*; D013906:Thoracoscopy