Sympathectomy - a stress response attenuation

"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

Monday, January 21, 2008

Symptoms can appear years after the surgery!

Handbook of Clinical Neurology

by P. J. Vinken, G. W. Bruyn - 1968 - Neurology
Weeks, months, or years after cervicothoracic preganglionic sympathectomy,
gustatory sweating and flushing may develop on the denervated side along with impaired thermoregulatory sweating.

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