Peritoneum

Question 1

What are some examples of organs with retroperiteonal viscera?

Answer 1

aorta, pancreas, duodenum, ascending and descending colon, kidneys, and IVC

Question 2

What separates the abdominal muscles from the parietal peritoneum?

Answer 2

the transversalis fascia

Question 3

the spleen is protected by which ribs?

Answer 3

9-11 (inferior left costal margin)

Question 4

What ligaments is the greater momentum formed by?

Answer 4

gastrocolic, gastrolienal, and gastrophrenic

Question 5

What ligaments is the lesser momentum formed by?

Answer 5

hepatogastric and hepatoduodenal

Question 6

Where does the hepatogastric ligament run?

Answer 6

connects liver and lesser stomach

Question 7

What umbilical fold do the inferior epigastric arteries run with?

Answer 7

lateral

Question 8

What two ligaments attach the spleen to other structures?

Answer 8

gastrolienic and ilenorenal/splenorenal (to left kidney)

Question 9

Does the spleen sit above or below the transverse mesocolon?

Answer 9

sits on it (above) on the left-most margin

Question 10

The part of the colon where the transverse transitions to ascending and descending is what what?

Answer 10

right and left (respectively) colic flexures

Question 11

What attaches the jejunum and ileum to the posterior abdominal wall?

Answer 11

mesentery proper

Question 12

What is the anterior border of the omental bursa?

Answer 12

posterior surface of the stomach, gastrocolic ligament, and lesser omentum

Question 13

What is the inferior border of the omental bursa?

Answer 13

transverse colon and transverse mesocolon

Question 14

What is the superior border of the omental bursa?

Answer 14

left lobe of the liver and posterior lamina of the left coronary ligament

Question 15

What umbilical fold does the obliterated umbilical artery run with?

Answer 15

medial

Question 16

What umbilical fold does the obliterated arches run with?

Answer 16

median

Question 17

The mental nurse communicates with the greater peritoneal sac via what?

Answer 17

epiploic foramen of Winslow

Question 18

Is the greater momentum composed of perietal or visceral peritoneum?

Answer 18

visceral

Question 19

T or F. mesenteries and ligaments in the abdomen form from parietal peritoneum reflections

Answer 19

F. they are from visceral peritoneum

Question 20

Do retroperitoneal organs have visceral peritoneum?

Answer 20

No. just parietal

Question 21

Where does the gastrocolic ligament run from?

Answer 21

lower stomach to transverse colon

Question 22

What is attached inferiorly to the cecum?

Answer 22

appendix

Question 23

What parts of the colon are intraperiteonal?

Answer 23

transverse (connects tranverse to pancreas) and sigmoid

Question 24

What are the two parts of the periteonal cavity?

Answer 24

greater and lesser peritoneal sacs

Question 25

When is the greater peritoneal sac formed?

Answer 25

developmental rotation of the foregut

Question 26

The lesser peritoneal sac is aka?

Answer 26

omental bursa

Question 27

What are the borders of the epiploic foreamen?

Answer 27

inferior- frist part of the duodenum superior- the liver (caudate lobe) anterior- IVC posterior- hepatic portal vein in the hepatoduodenal ligament of the lesser omentum

Question 28

What are the two mesogastric structures?

Answer 28

falciform ligament and lesser omentum

Question 29

Gut rotation of the duodenum, jejunum, ileum and colon occurs around an axis formed by?

Answer 29

superior mesenteric artery

Question 30

What lose their dorsal mesenteries during gut rotation 1?

Answer 30

ascending/descending colon, doudenum

Question 31

What lose their dorsal mesenteries during gut rotation 2?

Answer 31

spleen

Question 32

he right paracolic gutter has at its inferior end the vermiform appendix and at its superior end the?

Answer 32

hepatorenal recess (aka Morison's pouch) Being a low point in the peritoneal cavity of the supine patient, it is where excess intraperitoneal fluid (such as blood) collects

Question 33

Midgut and hindgut structures have only have which mesentery?

Answer 33

dorsal. Some of these dorsal mesentaries are lost during fetal development in a process called gut rotation.

Question 34

Do foregut structures have a ventral mesentery?

Answer 34

Yes

Question 35

The remainder of the spell mesentery (the part not lost) is called the?

Answer 35

splenicorenal ligament Remember that the splenic mesentery is derived from dorsal mesogastrium.

Question 36

Just superficial to the parietal peritoenum is what?

Answer 36

transversalis fascia