They connect abdominal cavity to pelvic cavity providing pathways for spread of infection or cancer cells.
Abdominal gutters vs pouches.
The left medial paracolic gutter.
Peritoneal recesses or peritoneal gutters are the spaces formed by peritoneum draping over viscera.
The right lateral gutter is much larger and allows for greater drainage than the left gutter.
Paracolic gutters help keep infectious material away from the body s internal organs.
Hepatorenal recess morison s pouch b rectovesical pouch in males or.
The term refers mainly to four spaces in the abdominal cavity.
Both paracolic gutters run laterally along the back side of the abdominal wall and are situated between the abdominal wall and the outer margin of the colon.
This fluid acts as a lubricant enabling free movement of the abdominal viscera and the antibodies in the fluid fight infection.
Peritoneal spaces are separate compartments within the peritoneal cavity.
The paracolic gutters paracolic sulci paracolic recesses are spaces between the colon and the abdominal wall structure.
The peritoneal cavity can be divided into the follo.
The two paracolic gutters and the two paramesenteric gutters there are other smaller recesses including those around the duodenojejunal flexure cecum and the sigmoid colon.
Gross anatomy these spaces are separated or compartmentalized by various peritoneal ligaments and their attachments.
Left paracolic gutter lateral to descending colon 2.
It is continuous with the peritoneum which lines the hepatorenal pouch and through the epiploic foramen the lesser.
Result in formation of gutters recesses pouches.
The right lateral paracolic gutter.
There are two paracolic gutters.