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01-04-2014 | Letter to the Editor
Transumbilical thoracic sympathectomy with an ultrathin flexible endoscope in a series of 38 patients
Authors:
Moshe Hashmonai, Peter B. Licht, Christoph H. Schick, Georg Bischof, Alan P. E. Cameron, Cliff P. Connery , Jose Ribas M. De Campos
Published in:
Surgical Endoscopy
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Issue 4/2014
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Excerpt
We read with interest the article by Zhu et al. [
1] that described a novel approach to thoracic sympathetic ablation. We also read their recently published online article on pigs, which presumably predated their experience on humans, a wise and correct approach [
2]. Each surgical technique has its pros and cons. In the present case, there was only one skin wound, hiding within the umbilicus instead of two to four incisions on the thorax. Each pleural cavity had only one access wound instead of two in the standard thoracoscopic techniques. On the other hand, three access wound were created in the peritoneal cavity, two of them in the diaphragms. …
