Abdominal Organs Flashcards
Esophagus
- Circular and longitudinal muscles
A. Striated (sup 1/3) -> smooth (inf 1/3)- Middle 1/3 = combo
- Passes thru esophageal hiatus of diaphragm (T10)
A. Phrenico-esophageal lig - attaches esophageal hiatus- Allows independent movement from diaphragm
Stomach
- Chyme = gastric juice + food
- Intraperitoneal
- Upper left quadrant
- Parts
A. Cardia- where esophagus meets stomach
B. Fundus - part sup to cardia
C. Body
D. Pyloric part- Antrum
- Canal
- Sphincter
- Mucosal layer
A. Rugae- folds that allow temp stretching
Small intestine
- Primary absorption site
- Duodenum
A. C-shaped from pylorus-> duodenojejunal flexure (L2)
B. Sup. Part- mesentery and mobile, rest = fixed and secondarily retroperitoneal
C. 4 parts- Sup (1st) - attached to hepatoduodenal lig (lesser omentum) sup and greater omentum inf
- Descending (2nd) - curves around head of pancreas (contains minor and major duodenal papillae
- Inferior (3rd) - crossed by SMA and root of mesentery (aorta posterior)
- Ascending (4th) - attaches jejunum, supported by suspensory lig (of Treitz) (muscular)
A. Muscle contraction -> duodenojejunal flexure angle widens -> contents pass thru
D. Major duodenal papilla receives bile duct - Marks transition foregut -> midgut
- Sup. Pancreaticoduodenal and inf. Pancreaticoduodenal a. Anastamose there
- Prox supplied celiac trunk branches
- Distal supplied SMA branches
- Jejunum
- Ileum
Pancreas
- Secondarily retroperitoneal
- Post stomach
- Oblique from duodenum -> spleen
- Parts
A. Head - attacked w/in “C” of duodenum- Uncinate process from inf border -> post SMA
B. Neck - overlies SMV
C. Body
D. Tail - relatively mobile, near splenic hilum
- Uncinate process from inf border -> post SMA
- Main pancreatic duct: tail -> head -> joins bile duct -> dilated hepatopancreatic ampulla at major duodenal papilla
A. Sphincter muscles control digestive secretion flow direction - Accessory pancreatic duct
A. Sometimes -> minor duodenal papilla
B. Usually joins main pancreatic duct
Liver
- Produces bile
A. Leaves via left and right hepatic ducts -> common hepatic duct + cystic duct (gallbladder) -> bile duct
B. Bile duct + main pancreatic duct at hepatopancreatic ampulla -> joins major duodenal papilla - Upper right quadrant, partially protected by ribs
- Surfaces sep inf by inf border that follows right costal margin
A. Diaphragmatic - covered by visceral peritoneum (except bare area)
B. Visceral - concave, H-shaped fissures, and many fossa for organs- right sagittal- longitudinal on right lobe (impression for IVC and gallbladder)
- Umbilical (left) - longitudinal, sep left and right lobes
A. Impression for ligamentum venosum and round lig - Porta hepatic - transverse, connects left and right fissures
A. Contains portal triad (portal vein, hepatic a., and hepatic duct), hepatic n. Plexus, and lymphatic vessels
- Peritoneal reflections
A. Coronary lig. - ant and post layers of peritoneum, demarcates bare area
B. Triangular lig - layers of coronary lig that meet on right and left aspects of liver
C. Falciform lig - connects diaphragmatic surface to ant abd wall and diaphragm- Boundary between left and right lobes
- Divides sup -> ant layer coronary lig
- Inf margin contains round lig
D. Lesser omentum
- Anatomical lobes: superficially divided
A. Right and left anatomical lobes
B. Right lobe -> 2 accessory lobes- Quadrate- ant and inf
- Caudate- post and sup
- Functional subdivision (8) - segments that can be respected w/o damaging others
Gallbladder
1. Parts A. Fundus- blunt, rounded end at level of right 9th costal cartilage B. Body C. Neck - continuous w/ cystic duct 2. Stores and concentrates bile
Spleen
- Not gut derived, but supplied by branch celiac trunk
- Superolateral left upper quadrant
- Gastrosplenic lig - connects stomach
- Spenorenal lig - connects left kidney
- Largest lymphatic organ
- Blood reservoir
Foregut
Supplied by celiac trunk
- Esophagus
- Stomach
- Prox 1/2 duodenum
- Pancreas
- Liver
- Gallbladder
- Spleen (not gut derivative)
Midgut
Supplied by superior mesenteric artery (SMA)
- Distal 1/2 duodenum
- Jejunum
- Ileum
- Ascending colon
- Prox 2/3 transverse colon
Hindgut
Supplied by inferior mesenteric artery (IMA)
- Distal 1/3 transverse colon
- Descending colon
- Sigmoid colon
- Rectum
- Sup. Anal canal
Peritoneum
Serous membrane that lines abdominopelvic cavity and viscera
1. Parietal: lines inner abdominopelvic wall
2. Visceral: lines surface of organs
3. Folds: from dorsal and ventral mesenteries in developing area
A. Omenta
B. Mesenteries
C. Ligaments
Intraperitoneal organs
Develop in peritoneal space
- Invaginate in closed sac (not in cavity)
- Surface almost completely covered by visceral peritoneum (except bare area)
- Stomach
- Small intestine (jejunum, ileum, sup duodenum)
- Spleen
- Liver
- Gallbladder
- Cecum
- Transverse and sigmoid colon
- Uterus
- Ovaries
- Uterine tubes
Extraperitoneal
Outside peritoneal space
- Partially covered w/ peritoneum
- Retroperitoneum
- Subperitoneum
- Secondary retroperitoneal
Primarily retroperitoneal organs
Develop posterior to peritoneum
- Kidneys
- Ureters
- Suprarenal glands
- Uterine cervix
Secondarily retroperitoneal organs
Develop intraperitoneal -> pushed out and posterior
- Duodenum (except sup. Part)
- Pancreas
- Ascending and descending colon and cecum
- Rectum (upper 2/3)
Subperitoneal organs
Inferior to peritoneum
- Urinary bladder
- Distal ureters
- Prostate
- Seminal vesicle
- Uterine cervix
- Vagina
- Rectum (lower 1/3)
Mesentery
Fused visceral and parietal peritoneum
- Connects organs to posterior wall
- Allows neurovascular communication between organs and wall
Mesentery proper
Suspends jejunum and ileum
Transverse mesocyclone
Suspend transverse mesocolon
Sigmoid mesocolon
Suspend sigmoid