Intercostal Nerve Reconstruction for Severe Compensatory Hyperhidrosis: The Gebitekin Technique.
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- Also identified by DOI 10.1016/j.athoracsur.2020.11.067.
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Abstract
Compensatory sweating (CS) is the most common and disabling complication of endoscopic thoracic sympathectomy and represents an unmet clinical challenge. Our surgical hypothesis is to generate a parallel pathway to the damaged part of the sympathetic nerve, similar to the Kuntz nerve, by reconstructing the 2 healthy intercostal nerves, thus treating CS. Here, we present a novel videothoracoscopic technique involving bilateral intercostal nerve reconstruction in patients with severe CS after endoscopic thoracic sympathectomy.
Medical subject headings
- Hyperhidrosis
- Intercostal Nerves
- Postoperative Complications
- Sympathectomy
- Thoracic Surgery, Video-Assisted
- Thoracic Surgical Procedures