title: [Current status of lumbar gangliectomy in the surgical treatment of chronic arteriopathies of the lower extremities].
abstract: Stress is laid on the important role that lumbar gangliectomy has acquired among treatments of chronic arteriopathies of the lower extremities. For patients at Leriche 2nd stage and suffering from obstructions confined to the superficial femoral, no other treatment would appear to boast such high success percentages over time. General surgeons are invited to make use of this comparatively simple and certainly effective intervention, in consideration of the fact, among others, that the few vascular surgery centres in existence are not in a position to meet the flow of requests from the arteriopathics who apply to them.
mesh_terms: D001157:Arterial Occlusive Diseases / Q000601:surgery*; D002908:Chronic Disease; D005263:Femoral Artery; D005728:Ganglia, Sympathetic / Q000601:surgery*; D006801:Humans; D007866:Leg / Q000098:blood supply*; D007925:Leriche Syndrome / Q000601:surgery*; D008161:Lumbosacral Region; D013562:Sympathectomy
vernacular_title: Attualità della gangliectomia lombare nella terapia chirurgica delle arteriopatie croniche degli arti inferiori.