Paracolic Gutter Subphrenic Recess

Peritoneal recesses or peritoneal gutters are the spaces formed by peritoneum draping over viscera.

Paracolic gutter subphrenic recess.

The two paracolic gutters and the two paramesenteric gutters there are other smaller recesses including those around the duodenojejunal flexure cecum and the sigmoid colon. They are located between the diaphragm and the liver. There are two paracolic gutters in the body the right and left lateral paracolic gutter. The term refers mainly to four spaces in the abdominal cavity.

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The right paracolic gutter is a component of the right inframesocolic space continuous superiorly with the right subhepatic and right subphrenic spaces. Right subphrenic abscesses are often secondary to intra abdominal sepsis e g. Subphrenic space splenorenal recess spleen tip left paracolic gutter and. A less obvious medial paracolic gutter may be formed especially on the right side if the colon.

The main paracolic gutter lies lateral to the colon on each side. Peritonitis ruptured liver abscess ruptured appendicular abscess and may have an acute or chronic course. It is larger than the left paracolic gutter which is partially separated from the left subphrenic spaces by the phrenicocolic ligament. Additional views may.

The left medial paracolic gutter. Etiologically it means a channel adjacent to the abdominal wall. This abdominal space may also be referred to as the paracolic recesses or the sulci paracolici but is different from the paramesenteric gutters. The paracolic gutter paracolic sulci paracolic recesses is a space between the colon and the abdominal wall.

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