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

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Cervical sympathectomy affects gonadotropin-releasing hormone, luteinizing hormone and testosterone

Therefore, long-term and repeated stellate ganglion block may inhibit the increases of GnRH, LH, and TS secretions induced by continuous light.

Hiroshi Iwama1 Contact Information, Choichiro Tase1, Yoshikazu Tonosaki2 and Yasuo Sugiura2
(1) Department of Anesthesiology, Fukushima Medical College, 1 Hikarigaoka, 960-12 Fukushima, Japan
(2) Department of Anatomy, Fukushima Medical College, 1 Hikarigaoka, 960-12 Fukushima, Japan

Received: 24 August 1994 Accepted: 16 December 1994