This is why this patient also has a hepatocellular carcinoma with cirrhosis ascites portal hypertension portacaval anastomosis and splenomegaly.
Paracolic gutter ct.
These gutters are used to drain infectious material away from the essential internal organs.
The left medial paracolic gutter.
The right and left paracolic gutters are peritoneal recesses on the posterior abdominal wall lying alongside the ascending and descending colon.
Between the outer wall of the colon and back side of the abdominal wall there is an open space known as the paracolic gutter.
The main paracolic gutter lies lateral to the colon on each side.
Etiologically it means a channel adjacent to the abdominal wall.
The right and left paracolic gutters are peritoneal recesses on the posterior abdominal wall lying alongside the ascending and descending colon.
It is the depression between the postero lateral wall of the abdomen and the lateral margins of the ascending and descending colon.
There are two paracolic gutters.
The inframesocolic space also contains paracolic gutters which are peritoneal recesses that are inferolateral extensions of their corresponding inframesocolic spaces on the posterior abdominal wall lateral to the ascending and descending colon respectively.
It is also known as sulci paracolic and paracolic recesses.
The left lateral paracolic gutter.
The right lateral paracolic gutter.
Paracolic gutters are open areas between the wall of the abdomen and the colon.
A less obvious medial paracolic gutter may be formed especially on the right side if the colon possesses a short mesentery for part of its length.