Commentary: Don't sweat the compensatory sweating
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In the Search for the Treatment of Compensatory Sweating
BACKGROUND Despite success of thoracic sympathectomy (ETS), there are patients that develop postoperatively intensive sweating of the trunk. The aim of the study was to present outcomes of three of those methods: removal of the clips, clipping of T6-9, and regional abdomino-lumbar iontophoresis (RALI). METHODS Out of the group of 229 patients treated with ETS, there were 9 that requested remo...
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عنوان ژورنال: The Journal of Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery
سال: 2019
ISSN: 0022-5223
DOI: 10.1016/j.jtcvs.2019.08.035