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Does clip removal help for compensatory hyperhidrosis complicating thoracic sympathetic clipping?

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Our study has been performed in accordance with the ethical standards as laid down in the 1964 Declaration of Helsinki and its later amendments or comparable ethical standards. This is a retrospective study on a series of patients who underwent clip removal following a thoracic sympathetic clipping for primary hyperhidrosis, and for this type of study formal consent is not required.

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Table 2 Clinical features and outcome of the patients who underwent clip removal following thoracic sympathectomy

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Kara, M., Kose, S., Ozkan, B. et al. Does clip removal help for compensatory hyperhidrosis complicating thoracic sympathetic clipping?. Clin Auton Res 29, 353–355 (2019). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10286-019-00599-8

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