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Clinical experience with video-assisted thoracic sympathectomy through the retrosternal pulmonary junction
H Yamamoto1, M Okada, A Kanehira
1Department of Surgery, Kobe University School of Medicine, Japan.
The Annals of Thoracic Surgery
|January 5, 2000
Abstract:
A new technique of video-assisted thoracic sympathectomy through retrosternal pulmonary junction can be done safely using a scope guide and a flexible scope. Bilateral thoracic sympathectomy was performed, employing a single skin incision, in 18 patients with palmar hyperhidrosis. The advantages include minimal neuralgia and superior cosmesis.