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 ...

The adequacy of lymph node dissection of colonic resection specimens influences the clinical and pathologic staging, leading to important postsurgical treatment decisions. Although manual lymph node ...

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 ...

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 ...

The organ's continuity can be seen only when it's exposed in a certain way In case you’ve ever wondered what connects your intestine to your abdomen, there’s a word – and now, a single organ – for ...

PHILADELPHIA (CBS)-- A surgeon from Ireland has discovered a new organ in the human body. J. Calvin Coffey, a professor of surgery at the University of Limerick's Graduate Entry Medical School, ...

Who knew that you would wake up one day, only to find that you have 79 organs – rather than the 78 you went to sleep with? It didn't exactly happen this way, but the classification of the mesentery as ...

Mesentery is a sheet-like structure that encloses the intestine and attaches it to the posterior part of the abdominal wall. First illustrations of the structure in situ indicated its contiguity, and ...

Discover the role of the human body mesentery: a single band of tissue vital for digestive health and organ classification. To the 78 organs that make up the human body, a group of scientists says we ...

For more than a century, doctors have regarded the folds of flesh that hold our intestines in place as snippets of an elaborate support structure—convoluted, but not much to talk about. Yet when a ...

The organ's continuity can be seen only when it's exposed in a certain way In case you’ve ever wondered what connects your intestine to your abdomen, there’s a word – and now, a single organ – for ...