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

Sunday, May 25, 2008

Postoperative complications are frequent after ETS

[Postoperative complications are frequent after surgery for palmar sweating and facial redness. Effects of the treatment must be considered with regard to the risk of side-effects]
[Article in Swedish]

Räf L.

Patientskadenämnden och Landstingens Omsesidiga Försäkringsbolag, Stockholm.