Talk:Endoscopic thoracic sympathectomy
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History of sympathectomy 1890-2004
Variations on ETS techniques cutting, clamping, burning, sympathectomy, ganglionectomy, various T-levels
Who's who of ETS Telaranta, Lin, Reisfeld, Garza, Nielson, Fischel, Drott, Claes, Meyer, et al
Glossary of terms ETS, ESB, ETS-C, compensatory hyperhidrosis,
[edit] Number of surgeries
As for the amount of surgeries performed all I could find is this link [1] "Several thousand procedures are performed on a yearly basis worldwide"--Clawed 08:31, 19 Nov 2004 (UTC)
[edit] Disorder?
- considers ETS to be a "nerurocardiologic disorder"
How could the NIH consider the ETS procedure to be a a disorder? Do they consider the results of the procedure to be a disorder? If so, we need a link to support that claim. AxelBoldt 19:28, 13 Feb 2005 (UTC)
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- I searched and searched and found nothing to back that statement up. I will remove it from the article. If by chance someone does find something to back up this claim they can add it back to the article--Clawed 10:57, 14 Feb 2005 (UTC)
I, Alexander Baker (songboy1234), an ETS surgery patient, was studied under the autonomic failure protocol of David Goldstein, M.D. Ph.D. in Nov 2004 at the National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke. Many other ETS patients have been through it as well. While there, I was given a book listing all the reasearch programs at NIH. Sympathectomy is listed right along side Parkinson's disease, etc as a "neurocadriologic disorder". See a scan of the book cover and relevant page here http://www.truthaboutets.com/Pages/NIH.html
69.228.47.7 16:07, 6 August 2005 (UTC)
[edit] hidrosiscure site
I removed the 5 links to http://www.hidrosiscure.com/index.htm
I don't know who is behind this site, but it is idiotic, e.g. "Sympathectomy is sometimes used to treat facial sweating, although most patiets don't respond wel to the idea of having surgery perfomed on their face. " 69.228.47.7 16:07, 6 August 2005 (UTC)
[edit] Comment
This article is a great example on why you can't trust Wikipedia articles. Please read the scientific literature on the topic instead. I corrected some of the many errors in the text (most notably the claim that "..Swedish medical authorities have not allowed ETS in Sweden since 2003." which simply is not true), but text is still quite bad and erroneous. Souggy (talk ยท contribs)
Swedish Health Authorities have indeed banned ETS in Sweden since 2003, Drs. Claes and Drott now operate in other countries. I have reinstated a mention of this, and added mention of the partial ban in Taiwan.
Please let us know Souggy what statements you find erroneous. They should be corrected.
A study has found that Wikipedia " is about as accurate on science as the Encyclopedia Britannica" http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/technology/4530930.stm
[edit] Website
A spammer keeps on inserting a website that consists entirely on a sparsely visisted forum. Contains no information. I see no reason to allow this link. JFW | T@lk 19:07, 18 January 2006 (UTC)
[edit] External links
I see a very active external links section, but the negative information in the article is not actually traced back to any source. That's worrying. JFW | T@lk 18:57, 23 January 2006 (UTC)
