The amount of compensatory sweating depends on the patient, the damage that the white rami communicans incurs, and the amount of cell body reorganization in the spinal cord after surgery.
Other potential complications include inadequate resection of the ganglia, gustatory sweating, pneumothorax, cardiac dysfunction, post-operative pain, and finally Horner’s syndrome secondary to resection of the stellate ganglion.
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After severing the cervical sympathetic trunk, the cells of the cervical sympathetic ganglion undergo transneuronic degeneration
After severing the sympathetic trunk, the cells of its origin undergo complete disintegration within a year.
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number of hemorrhages in the denervated half of the brain...

Sh. S. Tashaev

Received: 17 March 1980

Adaptive function of the sympathetic innervation of the cerebral vessels during rapid changes in systemic arterial pressure


The number of hemorrhages in the denervated half of the brain, which was twice that. in the intact half, is evidence that the sympathetic innervation of the ...
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Key Words adaptation - hemorrhage - hypotension - hypertension - reinfusion

Laboratory of Physiology of the Cerebral Circulation, Professor A. L. Polenov Leningrad Neurosurgical Research Institute. (Presented by Academician of the Academy of Medical Sciences of the USSR V. N. Chernigovskii.) Translated from Byulleten'' Éksperimental''noi Biologii i Meditsiny, Vol. 90, No. 11, pp. 543–546, November, 1980.