EFFECT OF REMOVAL OF STELLATE SYMPATHETIC GANGLION ON GROSS AND HISTOLOGIC STRUCTURE OF THE THYROID GLAND
- 1 March 1936
- journal article
- research article
- Published by American Medical Association (AMA) in Archives of Surgery
- Vol. 32 (3) , 452-461
- https://doi.org/10.1001/archsurg.1936.01180210081003
Abstract
Since Koeben1 in 1855 first suggested the sympathetic origin of disease of the thyroid, numerous investigators have attempted to prove or to disprove his theory. It has been demonstrated by Anderson,2 Berkley3 and Rhinehart4 that the thyroid is amply supplied by nonmedullated nerves, ending in fine fibrils, with knoblike enlargements on the basal ends of the gland cells. Briau5 has shown by anatomic and embryologic dissections that the thyroid nerves come from the cervical portion of the sympathetic trunk, arising in the main from the middle of the cervical portion of the trunk in man and from the inferior cervical or stellate ganglion in the dog and cat. It has also been demonstrated that ganglion cells exist both in the superior laryngeal nerves6 and in the thyroid gland.7 In the attempt to demonstrate a functional relation between the thyroid and its nerve supplyThis publication has 0 references indexed in Scilit: