Functional & organic diseases of the stomach / by Sidney Martin.

  • Martin, Sidney, 1860-
Date:
1895
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Credit: Functional & organic diseases of the stomach / by Sidney Martin. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    the lower lobe of the right luug, presses downwards the liver and displaces the heart slightly towards the left. The left wall of the abscess is formed by the falciform ligament of the Hver Its lower wall by the liver; on the right it is bounded by the thorax, and above by the diaphragm. When the subphrenic abscess exists on the left side of the body its boundaries are formed as follows : above, by the diaphragm; below, by the Abscess Cavity Diaphragm Stomach Fig. 49.—Showing the aiiatoiiiical relatiuus of a right-sided .subphrenic ab.scess, arising from perforation of a duodenal ulcer. The abscess has pushed up the diaphragm on the right side, compressing the lower lobe of the lung, and pushed the liver downwards, and the heart slightly to the left. C = ribs. (Leyden.) left lobe of the liver and the anterior surface of the stomach; in front, by the abdominal wall united by adhesions to the anterior surface of the stomach; on the right side by the falciform ligament, and on the left by adhesions between the cardiac end of the stomach, the spleen, and the diaphragm. Although originally right- or left-sided, a subphrenic abscess may infect the opposite side, and thus occupy all the space beneath the diaphragm. In this case, the falciform ligament is sometimes perforated, and sometimes intact.