Lumbar sympathectomy a retrospective study of 142 operations on 100 patients
- 1 November 1973
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Oxford University Press (OUP) in British Journal of Surgery
- Vol. 60 (11), 878-879
- https://doi.org/10.1002/bjs.1800601111
Abstract
A retrospective survey of 142 lumbar sympathectomies has shown that this operation is of value in the treatment of rest pain and ischaemic ulceration, especially in the 61–70 age-group. It is of less value in claudication. Diabetics fare only slightly less well than non-diabetics. Two cases of ureteric injury are described. Neuralgia occurred in 12·6 per cent of patients.Keywords
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