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.
http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/j.1439-0442.1967.tb00255.x/abstract

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Neurotransmitter metabolism in the carotid body has also been shown to be regulated by the neural innervation to the organ.

Z.-Z. Wang†, a, B. Dingera, S.J. Fidonea and L.J. StensaasCorresponding Author Contact Information, a

aDepartment of Physiology, University of Utah School of Medicine, Salt Lake City, UT 84108, U.S.A.

Accepted 19 August 1997.
Available online 17 August 1998.