Paracolic Gutter Ct

The left medial paracolic gutter.

Paracolic gutter ct.

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. The paracolic gutters paracolic sulci paracolic recesses are spaces between the colon and the abdominal wall.

Between the outer wall of the colon and back side of the abdominal wall there is an open space known as the paracolic gutter. It is also known as sulci paracolic and paracolic recesses. This is why this patient also has a hepatocellular carcinoma with cirrhosis ascites portal hypertension portacaval anastomosis and splenomegaly. These gutters are used to drain infectious material away from the essential internal organs.

It is the depression between the postero lateral wall of the abdomen and the lateral margins of the ascending and descending colon. The main paracolic gutter lies lateral to the colon on each side. The left lateral paracolic gutter. The right and left paracolic gutters are peritoneal recesses on the posterior abdominal wall lying alongside the ascending and descending colon.

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. There are two paracolic gutters in the body the right and left lateral paracolic gutter. The right and left paracolic gutters are peritoneal recesses on the posterior abdominal wall lying alongside the ascending and descending colon.