Successful thoracoscopic sympathectomy for primary erythromelalgia in the upper extremities.
Erythromelalgia is known as a rare syndrome of unknown etiology, characterized by redness with burning pain, edema associated with increased skin temperature in the upper and/or lower extremities. Various treatments such as drug therapies and sympathetic blockade were reported. We report two cases including a 57-year-old woman and a 64-year-old woman, showing the successful clinical outcome by bilateral thoracoscopic sympathectomy.
Nakajima
Yuki
Y
Department of Surgery II, Nippon Medical School, 1-1-5 Sendagi, Bunkyo-ku, Tokyo 113-8603, Japan.
Koizumi
Kiyoshi
K
Hirata
Tomomi
T
Hirai
Kyoji
K
Sakamoto
Atsuhiro
A
Shimizu
Kazuo
K
D004916:Erythromelalgia / Q000601:surgery*; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008875:Middle Aged; D013562:Sympathectomy / Q000379:methods*; D013906:Thoracoscopy; D034941:Upper Extremity / Q000601:surgery