Figure 1.

Drawing of a rabbit carcass model.

• (a) Inner right abdominal wall flap
• (b) Posterior abdominal muscles
• (c) Right kidney
• (d) Right renal vessels
• (e) Spine and retroperitoneal structures
• (f) Tie anchoring esophagus to spine
• (g) Catheter through esophagus into stomach
• (h) Stomach distended with saline
• (i) Site for an electrocautery incision
• (j) Sigmoid remnant embedded in stomach
• (k) Interrupted sutures
• (l) Site for purse-string sutures
• (m) Segment of left uterine horn removed prior to anastomosis
• (n) Opening in broad ligament
• (o) Inner left abdominal wall flap
• (p) Urinary bladder
• (q) Left thigh with intact femoral vessels
• (r) Site of disarticulation of leg
• (s) Circumferential incision in body of uterus for end-to-end anastomosis
• (t) Incision site in body of uterus for running anastomosis
• (u) Right horn of uterus
• (v) Right ovary
• (w) Right ureter
• (x) Clamp across pylorus