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

Tuesday, June 10, 2014

The physiology of the sympathetic innervation of the limbs according to the ganglia and their location in correspondence with the ribs is highly variable

The Surgical Treatment of Hyperhidrosis - The Annals of Thoracic Surgery: "The physiology of the sympathetic innervation of the limbs according to the ganglia and their location in correspondence with the ribs is highly variable. Surgery performed by rib count is not anatomical, and rib count is often erroneous: according to Chou and colleagues [3], the estimated rib level was wrong in 5 of 114 patients. "



http://www.annalsthoracicsurgery.org/article/S0003-4975(11)02260-0/fulltext#bib3_internalLink
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