Kidneys, suprarenal glands and posterior abdominal vessels, nerves ana glands

Sympathetic trunk, greater splanchnic nerve and celiac ganglion with diaphragm resected, left lateral view

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Kidneys, suprarenal glands and posterior abdominal vessels, nerves ana glands

Sympathetic trunk, greater splanchnic nerve and celiac ganglion with diaphragm resected, left lateral view

Most of the diaphragm has been cut away. In the thorax the aorta, hemiazygos vein, sympathetic trunk and greater splanchnic nerve have been dissected, together with portions of the intercostal vessels. Below the diaphragm the dissection is similar to that shown in view 152-1.

1. Thoracic aorta
2. Hemiazygos vein (lower end cut off at point of junction with left renal vein)
3. Posterior intercostal artery IX
4. Posterior intercostal vein X
5. Location of intervertebral disc Th. X-XI
6. Lesser splanchnic nerve
7. Posterior mediastinal lymph nodes
8. Diaphragm (right crus, cut off)
9. Greater splanchnic nerve (note passage through small aperture in left crus of diaphragm)
10. Celiac trunk
11. Upper pointer: Celiac ganglion Lower pointer: Right crus of diaphragm
12. Lumbar lymph nodes
13. Costal pleura
14. Sympathetic trunk (upper two pointers on ganglia of sympathetic trunk)
15. Rib IX (cut off)
16. Diaphragm (cut off)
17. Intercostal nerve XI
18. Joint at head of rib
19. Part of diaphragm attached in region of disk of Th. XII-L. I vertebra
20. Lateral lumbocostal arch
21. Rib XII
22. Left crus of diaphragm
23. Quadratus lumborum muscle (cut off)
24. Psoas major muscle (cut off)
25. Iliohypogastric nerve and ilioinguinal nerve
26. Lumbar nerve I (branch which joins lumbar plexus)
27. Lumbar artery and vein II