"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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fiber degeneration following Sympathectomy
Petras JM, Cummings JF. Autonomic neurons in the spinal cord of the rhesus monkey: a correlation of the findings of cytoarchi- tectonics and sympathectomy with fiber degeneration following dorsal rhizotomy. J Comp Neurol 1972;146:189 –218.