[Status of the celiac plexus in patients with extravasal compression of the celiac trunk and its role in the etiology of pain syndrome]. / Sostoianie chrevnogo spleteniia u bol'nykh s ékstravazal'noi kompressiei chrevnogo stvola i ego rol' v geneze bolevogo sindroma.

The technique and results of surgical treatment of 109 patients with extravasal compression of the celiac trunk (ECCT), which in 77 patients was combined with a duodenal ulcer, are described. In the celiac plexus of the patients with ECCT, the inflammatory-sclerotic changes of a different degree of pronouncement were revealed. It was established that periarterial sympathectomy of the celiac artery and its branches had an essential effect on the state of gastric functions. In patients after isolated transection of a median phrenic ligament, the changes in gastric functions were not sharply pronounced.