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Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . “The anatomic description that had been laid down over 100 years of anatomy was incorrect. This organ is far ...

In case you missed it, by at least one recently revised tally you now have 79 organs – up from 78. A layered fold of tissue that connects your intestines to the abdominal wall, the mesentery was ...

The mesentery is an organ that attaches all the digestive organs in the abdomen. It connects much of the intestines to the back abdominal wall, holding them in place when a person stands upright. The ...

Patients with a short bowel and receiving parenteral nutrition (PN) have an increased risk of chronic cholestasis (CC). Restoration of bowel continuity after a mesenteric infarction results in PN ...

Mesenteric panniculitis is a rare, idiopathic inflammatory condition targeting the adipose tissue of the small‐bowel mesentery. It forms part of a spectrum that ranges from predominantly inflammatory ...

MALROTATION of the bowel in the absence of mechanical obstruction is compatible with a normal life span. Volvulus of the mid-gut associated with malrotation of the bowel usually requires treatment ...

OUR interest in retractile mesenteritis was first aroused when one of us (C.G.T.) was consulted on an exploratory laparotomy for a suspected tumor in the large bowel. The tumor was not found, and the ...