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.

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not found any improvement in ulcer healing with sympathectomy

We have not found any improvement in ulcer healing with sympathectomy as compared with local wound care and have not performed upper extremity sympathectomy for upper extremity ischemia in over a decade.

Noninvasive Vascular Diagnosis:

A Practical Guide to Therapy

By Ali F. AbuRahma, John J. Bergan
2nd ed., 2007
ISBN: 978-1-84628-446-5