Development

of the abdominal cavity

and peritoneum
1. Growth of the digestive tube
2. Rotation
3. Fusions with ventral and dorsal wall
Development of the abdominal cavity and peritoneum
Development of the abdominal cavity and peritoneum
Growth of the digestive tube
Rotation and fusion
Ductus omphaloentericus – diverticulum ilei Meckeli
Stomach, bursa omentalis

Lesser omentum
Epiploic foramen
Bursa omentalis, epiploic foramen
Stomach, colon transversum, jejunum and ileum
• intraperitoneal position
• omentum maius and minus, mesocolon transversum
Colon ascendens, c. descendens
- mesoperitoneal position
Parietal peritoneum

Plica umbilicalis mediana

- medialis
- lateralis

• lig. umbilicale medianum

• lig. umbilicale mediale
• a.epigastrica inf.

• fossa supravesicalis
• fossa inguinalis medialis
• direct inguinal hernia
• fossa inguinalis lateralis
• indirect inguinal hernia
 Colon ascendens, c. descendens
. mesoperitoneal

Gaster, colon transversum

• intraperitoneal
• omentum
• mesocolon transversum
Peritoneal recessus
Paraduodenal, ileocecal, intersigmoid)

Internal hernias
Developmental abnormalities of GIT

•Clefts (fissures) – palate, lips, uvula

•Teeth – number, position, eruption
•Oesophagus – diverticules, tracheo-oesophageal fissure
•Situs viscerum inversus totalis, partialis (malrotation)

•Diverticulum ilei Meckeli – 15 – 100 cm from ileocecal valve,

2-10 cm long
• (x appendicitis)
•Caecum liberum (mobile)
•Variations of liver lobes and bile ducts
•Pancreas anulare
•Internal herniae (stomach, recessus of peritoneum)
Diverticulum ilei (Meckel´s ) – remnant of ductus omphaloentericus

ILEUM

80 – 100cm
orally from
IC valve
Development of pancreas
Pancreas anulare
Abnormalities of the extrahepatic bile ducts
Accessory hepatic duct, crossing of the cystic duct.
Short or long common hepatic duct