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.www.ubcmj.com/pdf/ubcmj_2_1_2010_24-29.pdf
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.
http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/j.1439-0442.1967.tb00255.x/abstract
HYPOTHALAMUS:
RECENT STUDIES ON THE HYPOTHALAMUS:
K. E. COOPER
TEMPERATURE REGULATION AND THE HYPOTHALAMUS
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......pathway is necessary for the complete febrile response in cats was shown by Knkston (1935), who found that complete bilateral sympathectomy greatly reduced the pyrogenic response, and by Douglas (1954), who showed the importance of ear vasoconstriction in the......
