منابع مشابه
The Results of Sympathectomy
THis paper deals only with sympatlhectomy lor the cxtremities anld includles the results of three operations. For the lower limb, anl excision of the sympathetic chain, 3 to 6 cm. in length, centred opposite the third lumbar vertebra, has been the stanidard procedure. rhis includes the fourth lumbar ganglion and in many cases the third ganglion also. The extraperitoneal route is used, with spin...
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The average survival time of patients in the malignant phase of hypertension is short-eight months according to Keith et al. (1928). There have been many reports of the effects of bilateral thoracolumbar sympathectomy on the mortality rate in. this disease. Woods and Peet (1941) recorded a survival rate of 33 per cent five years after operation and Peet and Isberg (1946) a rate of 19 per cent a...
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L UMBAR SympatklCCtOIny iS a surgical procedure that is now well established as a valuable adjunct in the treatment of selected cases of peripheral arterial disease. Immediateiy following World War II there was much enthusiasm for sympathectomy and as a result many patients with peripheral vascular disease underwent this procedure. In the next few years reports indicating a relatively high perc...
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BEFoRE severing the cervical sympathetic nerve in the rabbit's neck, Claude Bernard had expected that the result of this operation would be a decrease in the temperature of the affected side of the head. His hypothesis was false, but the observed fact, the increase in temperature, was unmistakable. The full significance of the experiment was, to him, initially concealed. To no less extent did i...
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ژورنال
عنوان ژورنال: Annals of Surgery
سال: 1977
ISSN: 0003-4932
DOI: 10.1097/00000658-197712000-00019