Some congenital malformations of the intestinal canal / by William Turner.
- William Turner
- Date:
- [1863]
Licence: Public Domain Mark
Credit: Some congenital malformations of the intestinal canal / by William Turner. Source: Wellcome Collection.
Provider: This material has been provided by The University of Glasgow Library. The original may be consulted at The University of Glasgow Library.
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![the coats of the jejunum, but not communicating Svith; its canal, was ])folonged downwards for about 1^ inch. It evidently repre- sented a part of the jejunum atrophied almost to coniplfete dis- appearance. Below this, again, for 1-^ inch, the gut was ;peryious, and formed a small loop, which had a diameter equal to tlic stem of a common tobacco-pipe. Beyond this loop was a second constriction, 2 inches long, similar to the one a;lready described. Then the gut, again pervious, formed a second small loop ;. below which was a third constriction, 1^ inch long, similar to the former ones. The rest of the jejunum and the whole of the ileum were arranged in the usual convoluted manner; their canal was pervious, but their diameter did not exceed that of the two small loops of gut between the three constricted thread-like portions. The mesentery, which corresponded to the three places where the gut presented the greatest amount of constriction, was puckered and shortened, and those portions of it which supported the two short intermediate loops were more or less twisted.^ I have looked carefully, but without success, for any appearance of bands of adhesions at these spots, and Dr Thorold, by whom the post-mortem examination was made, has informed me that he saw no traces of old or recent lymph in these localities. An injection which I forced into the trunk of the superior mesenteric artery ran freely into those branches which supplied the bowel above and below the constric- tions, but it did not enter into any vessels situated in the three constricted portions and the two small intermediate loops of the jejunum. 1 Explanation ofFh/iire.—a, Cul-ilc-sac. h, h, h, Thrcad-likc const rictcd parts of jpjunum. c, c, Two short intermediate loops, d, </, Shortened mesentery.](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b21455661_0004.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
