Table 4.

Operative results of ramicotomy reported in the literature [3–5, 12, 14]

Series	Number	Method	CS (%)	Satisfaction (%)	PS or recurrence (%)
Gossot [3]	62	T2–T4 or T5 ramicotomy	70.9	Not mentioned	10
Cho [12]	50	T2 and T3 ramicotomy	92	78	6
Lee [4]	68	T3 ramicotomy	67.4	67.6	32.5
Cho [14]	11	T3 or T4 ramicotomy	90.1	6.5 (10 scale)	21.4
Kim [11]	83	T3 ramicotomy	62.1	68.6	30.1
Present study	43	T3 and T4 ramicotomy	95.3	79.1	16.3

Number number of patients, CS compensatory sweating, PS persistent sweating