Manual of surgery / by Alexis Thomson and Alexander Miles.

  • Thomson, Alexis, 1863-1924
Date:
1904
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Credit: Manual of surgery / by Alexis Thomson and Alexander Miles. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    CHAPTER XXII, THE ABDOMEN AND PELVIS. Surgical anatomy—Injuries of the abdominal] parietes: Oontusions ; kupture of abdominal muscles—Injuries of the abdominal viscera : Traumatic rupture of hollow and of solid viscera— Wounds of the abdomen: Punctured and Gunshot wownds— Diseases of the abdominal wall: Abscess and Cellulitis ; Actinomycosis ; Tumours —Affections of the umbilicus : Persistence of the vitelline duct ; Persistence of the urachus 3 Urachal fistulee and cysts ; Inflammation ; Umbilical fistule of other than congenital origin: biliary, Urinary, Jecal ; Tumours. muscles are arranged in three stoups—anterior, posterior, and lateral. The anterior sToup comprises the recti and the pyramidales muscles ; the recti are separated from one another in the middle line above the Beneath the muscles is a layer of fascia known as the transversalis fascia, which may be said to line the entire abdominal cavity. Between the transversalis fascia and the parietal peritoneum is a layer of loose areolar tissue known ag the extra-peritoneal fat. The peritoneum lines the general cavity of the abdomen and pelvis, and is reflected from the parietes on to the viscera. The parietal and visceral layers are normally in contact, the Space between them being only a potential one. The peritoneal cavity consists of two sacs, a steater and a lesser. The greater sac is that which is opened when the sbdominal parietes are cut through in the operation of laparotomy. Che lesser sac, or omental bursa of Continental writers, lies for the most