Splenocolic ligament

Splenocolic ligament
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Identifiers
Latin ligamentum splenocolicum
TA A10.1.02.210
FMA 76985

Anatomical terminology

The splenocolic ligament is a peritoneal ligament connecting the splenic capsule to the transverse colon.[1] Made of visceral peritoneum, it is a component of the greater omentum.[2] Despite being a ligament, it has sufficient vascularization that cutting it during surgery can lead to bleeding complications.[1]

Of clinical relevance, one cause of exercise-induced pain in one's left side (a side stitch) is stretching of this ligament and the peritoneum when the spleen swells from exertion.[2]

Footnotes

  1. 1 2 Wood et al. 2010, p. 611
  2. 1 2 Ross 2006, p. 218

References


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