Lumbar sympathectomy was performed for the first time by Julio Diez in 1924 in Buenos Aires [1]. Royle in Australia and Adson in the USA performed it at the same time (1925) [2]. Diez, Royle and Adson ...

From the surgical services and the Peripheral Vascular Clinic, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston. Read by title at the annual meeting of the New England Surgical Society, Salem, Massachusetts, ...

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 ...

Blushing or facial reddening is an involuntary reaction, usually as a result of a strong emotional response that stimulates the sympathetic nervous system to increase the flow of blood to the skin of ...