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. www.ubcmj.com/pdf/ubcmj_2_1_2010_24-29.pdf 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
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It has been shown in animals that sympathectomy of one side of the body leads to an increase in the development of tumors on the denervated side
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