A new discovery regarding the human intestinal mesentery may radically change the fundamentals of anatomy and embryology and related surgical approaches. The mesenery is an obscure structure in the ...
A 55-year-old man with an acute Stanford type B aortic dissection presented with clinical signs of mesenteric ischemia. Computed tomography (CT) revealed a thrombosed false lumen in the superior ...
For many years, scientists have debated whether the ‘gut mesentery’, a fan-shaped, double-layered membrane in the human abdominal cavity, is a single entity. Using a revised method of dissection, an ...
A Professor of Surgery at the University of Limerick’s Graduate Entry Medical School, J Calvin Coffey, has found that the mesentery is one continuous structure, instead of a fragmented structure made ...
The impact of hepatic fiblosis on the incidence of liver metastasis from colorectal cancer. This is an ASCO Meeting Abstract from the 2015 Gastrointestinal Cancers Symposium. This abstract does not ...
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As a blood vessel, the inferior mesenteric vein (IMV) drains blood away from the descending colon, rectum, and sigmoid, which are all parts of the large intestine. The IMV branches off the portal vein ...
We report a case of asymptomatic dissection of the descending aorta (type B aortic dissection) with silent renal hypoperfusion. A small, nonfunctioning kidney and a contralateral hypertrophied kidney ...
A 55-year-old man presented to an outside hospital with acute-onset chest pain, interscapular back pain, and progressive abdominal pain. His medical history revealed an abdominal aortic aneurysm, ...
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