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