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 ...

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 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 ...

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 ...

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, ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

In case you’ve ever wondered what connects your intestine to your abdomen, there’s a word – and now, a single organ – for that: the mesentery. But don’t worry; you haven’t grown a new organ. It’s ...

Thoracic aortic dissection occurs when the intima of the aorta becomes compromised and “tears” or “dissects” a new layer that fills with blood between the intima and the media. This “false lumen” can ...

A 55-year-old man presented to an outside hospital with acute-onset chest pain, interscapular back pain, and progressive abdominal pain. His medical history revealed an abdominal aortic aneurysm, ...

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 ...