Espiral AtlasAscending colon
colon ascendens
It rises on the right side of the abdomen, from the cecum to the right lobe of the liver, where it bends to the left and forms the right colic (hepatic) flexure, below the 9th and 10th ribs and covered by the lower part of the liver.
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- Structure
- Neighborhood
- Blood supply
- Clinical
Related clinical cases
- Mobile ascending colon and volvulus
- Colonoscopy, sigmoidoscopy and colorectal cancer