T3/T4 Thoracic Sympathictomy and Compensatory Sweating in Treatment of Palmar Hyperhidrosis

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Abstract

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 hyper-hidrosis, and thus to detect the potential mechanism of the occurrence of CS. The rates of occurrence and severity of CS are lowered with the lower sympathetic chain being transected

Keywords

thoracic sympathicotomy, palmar hyperhidrosis, compensatory sweating

Conflicts of Interest

The authors declare no conflicts of interest.

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