Surgical treatment of hyperhidrosis
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simpatectomía, transpiraciónAbstract
Essential hyperhidrosis syndrome of the upper limbs is a rare disease, which usually brings forth an important social or laboral impediment. It may perhaps be due to an increase in sympathetic tone, sometimes on a psychosomatic basis. In 2 of the reported cases, it had a familial character. Medical treatment -with anticholinergics- usually has a relative success and
undesirable side-effects. Consequently, sympathetic denervation of the upper extremity is preferred. The authors have performed it at pre-ganglionar level, by resection of the 2nd. and 3rd. thoracic ganglia. They used Smithwick's posterior extrapleural approach, Results were very good in the 6 operated patients, and there were no relapses in the series.
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