Abdominal Cavity and Peritoneum

Question 1

What is an intraperitoneal organ

Answer 1

suspended by mesenteries and surround by peritoneum

Question 2

What is carried in mesenteries

Answer 2

vessels, nerves, and lymphatics

Question 3

What is retroperitoneal

Answer 3

situated or occurring behind the peritoneum

Question 4

What are the two layers of peritoneum

Answer 4

visceral and parietal

Question 5

What is the falciform ligament

Answer 5

ventral mesentery between liver and abdominal wall

Question 6

What is the greater omentum

Answer 6

apron-like fold of visceral peritoneum that hangs down from the stomach

Question 7

What is the greater sac

Answer 7

anterior portion of the peritoneal cavity, potential space

Question 8

What is lesser sac

Answer 8

space situated behind the liver, pancreas, and stomach

potential space

Question 9

What does the mesentery proper attach

Answer 9

small intestine to posterior wall

Question 10

How will the greater omentum respond to infection

Answer 10

move within the abdomen wall to block off an infection

Question 11

How does the peritoneal cavity in men and women differ

Answer 11

men: closed
women: opening due to uterine tubes into the periotneum

Question 12

What viscera are contained within the peritoneal cavity

Answer 12

None

Question 13

What is contained within the fluid in the peritoneal cavity

Answer 13

potential space, contains leukocytes, antibodies, fluid

Question 14

How is the peritoneum relevant clinically

Answer 14

peritoneal cavity
ventriculoperitoneal shunt
infection and malignancies

Question 15

What is ventriculoperitoneal shunt

Answer 15

too much CSF can be drained to peritoneal cavity

Question 16

What are the structures formed by the peritoneum

Answer 16

mesentery
ligament
omentum

Question 17

What is the transverse mesocolon

Answer 17

mesentery of the transverse colon

Question 18

What is the gastrocolic ligament

Answer 18

portion of the greater omentum that attaches stomach to transverse colon

Question 19

What are the hepatogastric and hepatoduodenal ligaments a part of

Answer 19

lesser omentum

Question 20

What are the retroperitoneal organs

Answer 20

aorta
IVC
kidneys
bladder
ureter

Question 21

What are the boundaries of the omental foramen

Answer 21

Anterior: portal v, hepatic a, bile duct inside the hepatoduodenal ligament

Posterior: IVC, right crus diaphragm

Superior: caudate lobe of liver
Inferior: first part of duodenum

Question 22

What is the portal triad composed of

Answer 22

bile duct
hepatic artery
portal vein

Question 23

Where is the portal triad found

Answer 23

hepatoduodenal ligament of lesser omentum

Question 24

What is the innervation and vasculature of the parietal peritoneum

Answer 24

same as abdominal wall

Question 25

What is the innervation and vasculature of the visceral peritoneum

Answer 25

same as viscera

Question 26

How are the supracolic and infracolic compartments separated

Answer 26

transverse mesocolon

Question 27

What organs are contained within the supracolic compartment

Answer 27

stomach
liver
spleen

Question 28

What organs are contained within the infracolic compartment

Answer 28

small intestine

ascending and descendign colon

Question 29

Where will fluid within the right paracolic gutter spread

Answer 29

around liver down to pelvic cavity

Question 30

Where will fluid within the left paracolic gutter spread

Answer 30

spread inferiorly but limited superiorly

Question 31

What limits the spread of fluid from the left paracolic compartment

Answer 31

phrenicocolic ligament

Question 32

Where will fluid in the right infracolic spread

Answer 32

no where. limited to the right infracolic space, no outward channel

Question 33

What are the two main spaces within the abdomen that fluid may collect

Answer 33

hepatorenal recess (morrison's pouch)
rectovesical pouch/rectouterine