Table 2.

Selected abdominal and pelvic ligaments and mesenteries

Ligament	From	To	Identified By
Hepatoduodenal	Hepatic hilum	Duodenum	Portal vein, hepatic artery
Gastrohepatic (lesser omentum)	Lesser curvature of stomach	Fissure of ligamentum venosum	Left and right gastric artery, replaced left hepatic artery
Gastrosplenic	Greater curvature of proximal stomach	Splenic hilum	Left gastroepiploic and short gastric vessels
Gastrocolic	Greater curvature of gastric body	Transverse colon	Right and left gastroepiploic vessels
Splenorenal	Left anterior pararenal	Splenic hilum	Splenic vessels near hilum
Small bowel mesentery root	Duodenal-jejunal junction	Right iliac fossa	Superior mesenteric vessels
Greater omentum	Transverse colon	Apron anterior to small bowel	Epiploic vessels
Transverse mesocolon	Transverse colon	Pancreas	Middle colic vessels, gastrocolic trunk
Ascending mesocolon	Ascending colon	Mesenteric root	Marginal, ileocolic and right colic vessels
Descending mesocolon	Descending colon	Left superior duodenal fold	Marginal and left colic vessels, inferior mesenteric vein
Sigmoid mesocolon	Sigmoid colon	Root at origin of inferior mesenteric artery	Marginal  and sigmoid vessels