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Erroneously concluded
- Parasympathetic "irritation syndrome" resulting in sympathetic predominance
- Time delay secondary to scar formation
- Both attributed to the compressive effect of parotid scar formation
- Not perfect, but stimulated Andre-Thomas (1927) to propose that nerve injury and scar formation result in misdirected regrowth of autonomic nerves
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