. Manual of operative surgery. lly malignant disease or pyloric ulcer and its sequelae. Before opera-ting on the stomach especially for cancer, it is of great importance to have agood working knowledge of the anatomy of the region, a knowledge which thestandard textbooks on anatomy are careful not to give. The gastro-hepatic or lesser omentum may be divided into three parts:{a) a thick, strong portion running from the liver to the cardiac end of thelesser curvature and part of the oesophagus (gastro-hepatic ligament), {b) acentral or thin, often translucent portion, and (c) a thick, strong por


. Manual of operative surgery. lly malignant disease or pyloric ulcer and its sequelae. Before opera-ting on the stomach especially for cancer, it is of great importance to have agood working knowledge of the anatomy of the region, a knowledge which thestandard textbooks on anatomy are careful not to give. The gastro-hepatic or lesser omentum may be divided into three parts:{a) a thick, strong portion running from the liver to the cardiac end of thelesser curvature and part of the oesophagus (gastro-hepatic ligament), {b) acentral or thin, often translucent portion, and (c) a thick, strong portion at andnear the right end of the omentum and often named the hepato-duodenalligament as it runs from the liver to the duodenum (Fig. 525). The hepato- 390 THE STOMACH duodenal ligament s subject to variations which may be understood by thedescriptive names given to it, , cystico-colic ligament; cystico-duodenal I. ft triangular lig. of live Gall-bladder Hepa to-duo-denal lig. Superior portionof duodenum Diaphragm. Transverse colon Iostirior layer of great omentum Fig. 525. (Sohotta.)


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