Friday, July 3, 2009

Observations during lobotomy applied to patients for treatment of palmar sweating

J. Neurol. Neurosurg. Psychiatry, Aug 1954; 17: 196 - 203.
*......similar serial observa- tions on patients undergoing other intracranial operations. One patient undergoing a two-stage lumbar sympathectomy for hypertension was studied in detail. Following both operations she failed to show any marked rise in skin resistance......

Alick Elithorn, Malcolm F. Piercy, and Margaret A. Crosskey
A PERSISTING CHANGE IN PALMAR SWEATING FOLLOWING PREFRONTAL LEUCOTOMY