In thin patients relatively small volume of fluid can be found.
Paracolic gutter ultrasound.
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Etiologically it means a channel adjacent to the abdominal wall.
The left medial paracolic gutter.
Between the outer wall of the colon and back side of the abdominal wall there is an open space known as the paracolic gutter.
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The left paracolic gutter is a component of the left inframesocolic space partially separated from the left subphrenic spaces by the phrenicocolic ligament.
Both paracolic spaces are in continuity with the pelvic peritoneal spaces.
In a male patient this is a very uncommon diagnosis.
Ultrasound is the diagnostic modality of choice for the initial screening of unstable blunt trauma patients for peritoneal free fluid.
Blood in the peritoneal cavity from trauma is often first seen in the right paracolic gutter at the inferior tip of the liver.
Fluid may sit within the peritoneal space or paracolic gutters or may be interposed between bowel loops or around solid organs e g.
There is a multi cystic mass extending from the pelvis along the right paracolic gutter to the upper abdomen.
Your fast exam is incomplete if you do not visualize this area.
Pus in the paracolic gutter and in douglas pouch and debris filled bladder.
The right and left paracolic gutters are peritoneal recesses on the posterior abdominal wall lying alongside the ascending and descending colon.
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Ultrasound is variably sensitive depending on the size of the patient and the operator.
It is smaller than the right paracolic gutter.
It is also known as sulci paracolic and paracolic recesses.
It is the depression between the postero lateral wall of the abdomen and the lateral margins of the ascending and descending colon.