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A new discovery regarding the human intestinal mesentery may radically change the fundamentals of anatomy and embryology and related surgical approaches. The mesenery is an obscure structure in the ...

For many years, scientists have debated whether the ‘gut mesentery’, a fan-shaped, double-layered membrane in the human abdominal cavity, is a single entity. Using a revised method of dissection, an ...

Quick, point to your mesentery. If you aren’t quite sure where it is, or what it is, you are not alone. However, this piece of your digestive tract is getting a lot of attention lately, as some ...

In 1885, the English surgeon Frederick Treves gave a series of talks at the Royal College of Surgeons of England. Treves' most famous moment in abdominal history - treating Edward VII, a few days ...

Crohn's disease is a chronic inflammatory bowel disease that is sometimes insufficiently controlled by immunosuppressive therapies with a subsequent need for surgical removal of affected bowel ...

Mesenteric panniculitis is a rare condition that affects the fat-cell-containing part of the mesentery. Mesenteries are tissue folds in the body. They're essential in the abdomen, since they provide ...

As a blood vessel, the inferior mesenteric vein (IMV) drains blood away from the descending colon, rectum, and sigmoid, which are all parts of the large intestine. The IMV branches off the portal vein ...

ALTHOUGH patients with mesenteric vascular occlusions are being encountered and operated upon more frequently, this disease is a rare entity in the pediatric age group. The etiology of mesenteric ...