Maculoerythematous rash after lumbar sympathectomy
MS Litwin, RA First - New England Journal of Medicine, 1961 - Mass Medical Soc
MS Litwin, RA First
New England Journal of Medicine, 1961•Mass Medical SocSEVERAL unusual postoperative complications have been described after sympathectomy.
These include excessive dryness, with cracking of the skin in sympathectomized areas, 1, 2
and increased sweating, 2, 3 cyanotic mottling4 or neuralgic pain and hyperesthesia2, 3, 5
of undenervated skin dermatomes adjacent to sympathectomized areas. Recently, a patient
on the Vascular Surgical Service of the West Roxbury Veterans Administration Hospital was
readmitted two weeks after lumbar sympathectomy with a maculoerythematous rash over the …
These include excessive dryness, with cracking of the skin in sympathectomized areas, 1, 2
and increased sweating, 2, 3 cyanotic mottling4 or neuralgic pain and hyperesthesia2, 3, 5
of undenervated skin dermatomes adjacent to sympathectomized areas. Recently, a patient
on the Vascular Surgical Service of the West Roxbury Veterans Administration Hospital was
readmitted two weeks after lumbar sympathectomy with a maculoerythematous rash over the …
SEVERAL unusual postoperative complications have been described after sympathectomy. These include excessive dryness, with cracking of the skin in sympathectomized areas,1 , 2 and increased sweating,2 , 3 cyanotic mottling4 or neuralgic pain and hyperesthesia2 , 3 , 5 of undenervated skin dermatomes adjacent to sympathectomized areas.
Recently, a patient on the Vascular Surgical Service of the West Roxbury Veterans Administration Hospital was readmitted two weeks after lumbar sympathectomy with a maculoerythematous rash over the anterolateral thigh in an area of postsympathectomy neuralgia. Because a complication of this sort after sympathectomy has not previously been reported it seems desirable to review our findings.
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