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.
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Relationship between sympathovagal tone and personality traits

E. Schweiger, W. WittlingCorresponding Author Contact Information, E-mail The Corresponding Author, S. Genzel and A. Block

Department of Physiological and Clinical Psychology, Catholic University of Eichstaett, D-85071, Eichstaett, Germany

Received 27 August 1997.
Available online 15 September 1998.

Results of two-factor ANOVAs revealed substantial differences in personality characteristics depending on the level of sympathetic and parasympathetic tone respectively.
Correlational analysis showed remarkable relationships between sympathetic tone and some prominent personality traits. By introducing one of these personality traits (anxiety) as a covariate into two-factor ANCOVAs the originally obtained results were markedly altered.