Thoracic sympathectomy in the treatment of hyperhidrosis
Bibliographic record
Abstract
Despite patients’ reluctance to seek out medical attention, hyperhidrosis is not as rare a disorder as would be perceived and has historic roots in the medical literature. The condition is divided into primary and secondary hyperhidrosis. Secondary hyperhidrosis is a generalized sweating typically affecting the entire body and is consequent to underlying metabolic, neoplastic, infectious or endocrine conditions. Some examples of these conditions include diabetes mellitus, hyperthyroidism, carcinoid syndrome, malignancies such as lymphoma, tuberculosis, systemic shock, heart failure, Parkinson's disease and spinal cord injuries. In contrast, primary (idiopathic) hyperhidrosis is typically focal and is defined as the production of sweat by eccrine glands that is beyond the body's physiological parameters for thermoregulation. Usually this is an exaggerated response to a physiological stress or emotional/psychological stimulus. Moreover, primary hyperhidrosis is subcategorized based on location (palmar, plantar, axillary or craniofacial). For the purposes of this chapter, the term ‘hyperhidrosis’ will be used to refer more specifically to primary hyperhidrosis.
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How this classification was reachedexpand
Full frame distilled prediction
Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. Learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and 10,348 direct Gemma labels. Candidate is the union of thresholded teacher heads; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels or direct frontier model labels.
Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Open science | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Research integrity | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
Machine scores (provisional)
The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.
Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.
score_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from itClassification
machine, unvalidatedMachine predicted; a candidate call from one teacher head, not a consensus.
How this classification was reached, model by model and score by score, is at the end of the page under "How this classification was reached".