"Sympathectomy is a technique about which we have limited knowledge, applied to disorders about which we have little understanding." Associate Professor Robert Boas, Faculty of Pain Medicine of the Australasian College of Anaesthetists and the Royal College of Anaesthetists, The Journal of Pain, Vol 1, No 4 (Winter), 2000: pp 258-260
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Insulin hypersensitivity produced by sympathectomy
Insulin hypersensitivity has been undeniably produced by hypophysectomy, by ad- renalectomy, by sympathectomy, by spinal cord lesions, and by hypothalam- ic lesions.
THE HYPOTHALAMUS: A REVIEW OF THE EXPERIMENTAL DATA W. R. Ingram