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SELECTED ANATOMICAL POINTS
1 INTRODUCTION
2 EMBRYOLOGY
3 THE TRANSVERSE COLON AND GREATER OMENTUM
4 THE SPLENIC FLEXURE OF THE COLON
5 DESCENDING COLON
6 THE SIGMOID COLON
7 THE RECTUM
8 THE MESORECTUM
9 ANAL CANAL
10 THE PELVIC CAVITY
11 THE PELVIC BRIM
12 THE BACK WALL OF THE PELVIS
13 THE LATERAL WALLS OF THE PELVIS
14 NERVES
15 BLOOD VESSELS
16 LYMPH NODES
17 PELVIC PERITONEUM
18 BLADDER, PROSTATE, URETHRA, URETERS, SEMINAL VESICLES AND
VASA,
19 UTERUS AND OVARIES
20 LATERAL LIGAMENTS OF THE RECTUM
INTRODUCTION
This section aims to clarify some common anatomical problem areas that the trainee
may encounter.
Our knowledge of the anatomy is still emerging, so that early accounts may differ
from more recent ones.
Some of the details are obscured by the use of different names for the same
structure, or even the same names for different structures. In this account, where
several names are common, they will be listed once and the most popular one used
in the rest of the text.
The description will assume that the patient is lying supine on the operating table,
rather than standing upright in the classical anatomical position.
Reference to some simplified embryology helps understand the anatomy.