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.

http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/j.1439-0442.1967.tb00255.x/abstract

Monday, March 24, 2008

EFFECTS OF THORACIC SYMPATHECTOMY ON HUMAN MIDDLE CEREBRAL ARTERY

Yamada, Hiroyuki M.D.; Ono, Takeshi M.D.; Cho, Sungsam M.D.; Tomiyasu, Shiro M.D.; Sumikawa, Koji M.D.
Institution
Nagasaki University School of Medicine, Nagasaki, Japan
Title
EFFECTS OF THORACIC SYMPATHECTOMY ON HUMAN MIDDLE CEREBRAL ARTERY FLOW VELOCITY AND CEREBROVASCULAR CO2 RESPONSE.[Miscellaneous]
Source
ASA Annual Meeting Abstracts. Clinical Neurosciences. 91(3A):A222, October 1999.