In this connection it is worthy of note that 4 of the 41 cases of "coeliac disease," an interesting intestinal condition described by Still, had scurvy just before or during the onset of the disease.
There is no adequate reason for placing in this group "coeliac disease," a nutritional disorder of children recently described by Still, and suggested by McCarrison as belonging to the category of the vitamine deficiency diseases.
The coeliacaxis sending off branches to the liver, stomach, and spleen.
The coeliac axis dividing into the coronary, splenic and hepatic arteries.
It was further found that the cyst below the lower margin of the pancreas, in which the bullet was found, was situated three and one-half inches to the left of the coeliac axis.
This set of vessels forms the rudiment of the future coeliac axis.
The splenic artery and the left gastro-epiploic branch pass from the coeliac axis to the left between the layers of the mesogastrium, as previously seen (Figs.
But the hepatic artery must pass to the liver from the retroperitoneal coeliac axis.
Continuing to the left the finger would pass between aorta behind, coeliac axis and hepatic artery below and in front, and liver above.
Nasua rufa, with great omentum divided to bring into view the vessels passing from coeliac axis to liver and stomach and elevating the retrogastric parietal peritoneum to produce the pancreatico-gastric folds.
The course of the hepatic artery from coeliac axis to liver in the dorsal view in the cat is seen in Fig.
The hepatic artery is a branch of the coeliac axis, furnishing arterial blood to the liver tissues and supplying, in addition, branches to the stomach, duodenum and pancreas.
It is constricted from below by the curve of the hepatic artery as this vessel passes from the coeliac axis to reach the liver at the transverse fissure between the layers of the lesser omentum.
It consists of a few strands of unstriped muscular and fibrous tissue which passes from the praeaortal tissue around the origin of the superior mesenteric artery and coeliac axis to the duodeno-jejunal angle.
The abdominal aorta gives off in rotation the coeliac axis, which as a hub in a wheel gives off three spokes, the gastric artery to the stomach, the hepatic to the liver, and the splenic artery to the spleen.
The coeliac axis is a thick, short artery, which almost immediately divides into the gastric, hepatic and splenic branches.
The paroxysmal and neuralgic character of the pain indicates implication of the coeliac plexus.
It is due to vascular obstruction occasioned by the pressure of the enlarged pancreas itself or of the secondarily degenerated coeliac glands, and finally by secondary lesions of the liver.
On the other hand, it is also possible that the disease of the coeliac plexus may be primary, and the coexisting pancreatic disease and diabetes mellitus both secondarily dependent upon it.
Supposing such pancreatic disease to be primary, it is evident that it must operate through the coeliac plexus, which, with its ganglion, is gradually encroached upon.
Segoud found the ganglia and some of the fibres of the sympathetic hypertrophied and indurated,[13] and "in recent times Kussmaul and Maier have published an example of sclerosis of the coeliac and superior cervical ganglia.
Such cause may operate upon the central ganglia whence the nerves emanate, as the vicinity of the oblongata and upper parts of the spinal cord or the coeliac ganglion and its branches, including those to the pancreas.
This can only be settled by more careful study of the coeliac plexus after death from diabetes, but up to the present time facts would seem to support the view of primary pancreatic disease.
In aneurism of the aorta or coeliac axis the tumor may present in the epigastrium and produce analogous pressure symptoms.
The upper preaortic glands are massed round thecoeliac axis, and receive afferents from the gastric, hepatic, splenic and pancreatic glands; they are known as coeliac glands.
In man they extend along the vertebral column from the coeliac axis to the pelvis, but are specially numerous close to the renal arteries.
In front, immediately dorsal to the spleen, is a variable quantity of lymphoidal tissue, which must be very carefully cleared to see the superior mesenteric and coeliac arteries.
Small branches are given off to the ribs, and then comes the median coeliac (coe.
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