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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Irritant contact dermatitis of the hands following thoracic sympathectomy

Irritant contact dermatitis of the hands following thoracic sympathectomy

* Ming-Chien Kao

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Division of Neurosurgery National Taiwan University Hospital 7 Chung-Shan South Road Taipei Taiwan 100 Republic of China
Volume 44 Issue 3 Page 200-200, March 2001