OBJECTIVE Surgery for both palmar and axillar hyperhidrosis usually includes the interruption of the sympathetic chain in multiple levels. This study aimed to determine the long-term outcomes associated to video-assisted thoracic sympathotomy (VATS) of T2, T3 and T4 ganglia for these cases. METHODS Analysis of the outcomes obtained from 36 patients regarding the rate of resolution of the symp...

Purpose: To examine the effect of diverse incision techniques in carpal tunnel decompression on patients’ postoperative pain and degree of satisfaction. Materials and Methods: This study concerned 134 cases of 97 patients who were diagnosed with carpal tunnel syndrome from January 2010 to May 2012 and underwent carpal tunnel decompression surgery at our hospital. The average follow-up period wa...

BACKGROUND Compensatory sweating (CS) is one of the most common postoperative complications after thoracic sympathectomy, sympathicotomy or endoscopic sympathetic block (ESB) for palmar hyperhidrosis. This study was conducted to examine the relevance between CS and the sympathetic segment being transected in the surgical treatment of palmar hyperhidrosis, and thus to detect the potential mechan...

The aim of this study was to assess the effect of conservative versus operative treatment for unstable palmar plate disruption in the proximal interphalangeal (PIP) joint of the fingers with respect to preservation of joint stability, mobility, and pain. The study was conducted as a prospective study in which 83 patients were randomly assigned into 2 groups: (1) conservative treatment with a ri...

Pallor is deemed useful in the evaluation of patients suspected of anemia, although its perceived presence or absence may be misleading in cases with increased pigmentation with iron, melanin, or bilirubin. The purpose of this study was to determine the validity of pallor in the detection of anemia in children with beta-thalassemia as an iron overload model. Patients with beta-thalassemia A age...

Objetivo: este estudo buscou averiguar a possível discrepância bilateral de indicadores antropométricos pessoas com e sem síndrome Down (SD). Material Método: para tal, contou-se participação 60 indivíduos Down, idades entre 11 14 anos, que foram avaliados quanto à dominância lateral, dobras cutâneas, percentual gordura, circunferência muscular braço antebraço força preensão palmar. Principais ...

As a first-order method, the augmented Lagrangian method (ALM) is a benchmark solver for linearly constrained convex programming, and in practice some semi-definite proximal terms are often added to its primal variable's subproblem to make it more implementable. In this paper, we propose an accelerated PALM with indefinite proximal regularization (PALM-IPR) for convex programming with linear co...

People verbally overestimate hill slant by approximately 15° to 25°, whereas manual estimates (e.g., palm board measures) are thought to be more accurate. The relative accuracy of palm boards has contributed to the widely cited theoretical claim that they tap into an accurate, but unconscious, motor representation of locomotor space. In the current work, 4 replications (total N = 204) carried o...