| 1. | Medical sympathectomy using intravenous reserpine has also been attempted with limited success.
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| 2. | Surgical sympathectomy has helped but not without significant side effects.
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| 3. | She underwent a sympathectomy in March.
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| 4. | In 1949, Learmonth performed a lumbar sympathectomy on Queen in Scotland from 1952 to 1960.
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| 5. | In 1916, he and Ionescu together discovered the link between stellate ganglion removal and sympathectomy.
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| 6. | In a sympathectomy, a sympathetic ganglion is surgically removed to treat hyperhidrosis, or excessive sweating.
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| 7. | Studies suggest that compensatory sweating may occur in as many as 85 percent of patients who undergo transthoracic sympathectomy.
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| 8. | No reliable operation exists for foot sweating except lumbar sympathectomy, at the opposite end of the sympathetic chain.
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| 9. | With the brief popularization of lobotomy in the 1940s, sympathectomy fell out of favor as a form of psychosurgery.
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| 10. | The endoscopic version of thoracic sympathectomy was pioneered by Goren Claes and Christer Drott in Sweden in the late 1980s.
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