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Ann Thorac Surg 2005;80:1161
© 2005 The Society of Thoracic Surgeons

Correspondence

Compensatory Hyperhidrosis after Thoracoscopic Sympathectomy

Fritz Baumgartner, MD

Division of Cardiothoracic Surgery, Surgery Associates, 3791 Katella Ave, Los Alamitos, CA 90720

(Email: fritzbaumgartner1@msn.com).

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To the Editor:

Dumont and colleagues [1] raise the issue again of compensatory sweating (CH) after thoracoscopic sympathectomy for hyperhidrosis, but leave unanswered the basic question of whether the specific level of sympathectomy influences the frequency and severity of CH. Are there different rates and severities of CH between sympathectomies at T2 alone, T3 alone, T2-3 combined, T2-4 combined, or T3-4 combined? No study has definitively shown a difference, and it is likely that the incidence of CH at the various levels approximate one . . . [Full Text of this Article]


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