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

Saturday, April 19, 2008

Calcium in Salivary Glands

Calcium in Salivary Glands of the Rat After
Autonomic Denervation
PABLO M. BAZERQUE,* CARLOS J. PEREC,* and SILVIA E. TERRADASt
Department of Physiology, Faculty of Odontology,
University of Buenos Aires, Buenos Aires, Argentina
Experientia 25:1327-1328, 1969.