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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

A 55-year-old man with an acute Stanford type B aortic dissection presented with clinical signs of mesenteric ischemia. Computed tomography (CT) revealed a thrombosed false lumen in the superior ...

The mesentery, long considered to be a fragmented and complex structure connecting the intestine to the abdomen, has been reclassified as a single, continuous organ by researchers at the University of ...

The impact of hepatic fiblosis on the incidence of liver metastasis from colorectal cancer. This is an ASCO Meeting Abstract from the 2015 Gastrointestinal Cancers Symposium. This abstract does not ...

J. Calvin Coffey holds up a model of the mesentery Alan Place/University of Limerick There are 78 different organs in the human body—but there may actually be 79, reports Tom Embury-Dennis at The ...

Vascular. 2004;12(5):331-334. In this case, a Stanford type B aortic dissection was complicated by compromise of the SMA. The dissection extended into the SMA beyond the first jejunal branches, ...

The mesentery is an organ that attaches all the digestive organs in the abdomen. It connects much of the intestines to the back abdominal wall, holding them in place when a person stands upright. The ...

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, ...

Forget what you were told in biology class, as researchers have classified a brand-new organ inside the human body. The mesentery was long-believed to be made up of separate structures, but a new ...

For a minute there, 2018 was shaping up to be a year of new-organ discoveries. In January, Dr. J. Calvin Coffey, foundation chair of surgery at the University of Limerick, declared that he had ...