ZUR NORMALEN UND PATHOLOGISCHEN HISTOLOGIE DER GEFÄSSNERVEN IN OPERATIV ENTFERNTEN, MENSCHLICHEN GRENZSTRANGGANGLIEN

Abstract

A ganglion of the sympathetic chain was operatively removed because of a condition affecting its blood supply. The nervous tissue was found to be degenerate. Clumps of granular residue from the nerve bundles represented the nervous network in the adventitia of the blood vessels. Chords of argyrophile granules represented the remains of the terminal nervous network in the adventitia and the muscularis of the vessels. In the tunica intima of the vessels no nervous formations were seen. The nerves of the blood vessels degenerate with the same pathological signs as the nerves of the organs. The affection of the nerves of the blood vessels in the human sympathetic ganglia is most probably the initial factor responsible for circulatory disturbances in the sympathetic ganglia. Poor intraganglionary circulation is possibly involved in the changes in the nervous tissue, and the functional disturbances of the sympathetic ganglia.