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The ganglia of the sympathetic nervous system can be divided into two main anatomical categories, paravertebral and prevertebral. The paravertebral ganglia are situated bilaterally along the ventro-lateral aspect of the spinal column, and with their connecting trunks they form the sympathetic chains (right and left), which extend from the base of the skull to the sacrum. The prevertebral ganglia (see Section 2.3) lie close to the median sagittal plane of the body ventral to the abdominal aorta.
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© 1976 Giorgio Gabella
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Gabella, G. (1976). The Sympathetic Ganglia. In: Structure of the Autonomic Nervous System. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-009-5745-9_2
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