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Título

What about understanding the relationship between peritoneal reflections and the spread of pancreatic diseases. Let’s do it!

Introdução

The comprehension of embryologic pancreatic development plays a crucial role in recognizing the anatomical position and it’s relationship to other structures in abdominal cavity. As a secondary retroperitoneal organ, the pancreas maintains a close relationship with the peritoneum and its ligaments and organs connected to the mesentery, in addition to adjacent extraperitoneal structures. These ligaments and their connections can be identified can be identified based on the anatomical position and vascular landmarks.

Recognizing these structures on cross-sectional images and knowing their relationship with the pancreas is important to find and understand how and why they can be affected by pancreatic diseases, such as the spread of inflammatory, neoplastic, iatrogenic and traumatic processes.

It’s important for the radiologist to be familiar with this anatomical perspective to better understand the findings related to the spread of pancreatic diseases in imaging studies, in addition to avoiding pitfalls and misinterpretations.

Descrição

Our presentation aims to understand the correlation between the embryologic development of the pancreas with its relationship with peritoneum and its ligaments and organs connected to the mesentery, recognize peritoneal ligaments and folds in cross-sectional images through anatomical references and vascular landmarks, and understanding the pathways of disease spread of the pancreas along the peritoneum and how they can affect other organs and structures.

Palavras Chave

pancreas, ligaments, extraperitoneal, landmarks, mesentery.

Área

Abdominal Gastrointestinal