Ladd's bands

Ladd's bands, sometimes called bands of Ladd, are fibrous stalks of peritoneal tissue that attach the cecum to the abdominal wall and create an obstruction of the duodenum. This condition is found in malrotation of the intestine.

A surgical operation called a "Ladd procedure" is performed to alleviate intestinal malrotation. The procedure involves surgical division of Ladd's bands, widening of the small intestine's mesentery, performing an appendectomy and correctional placement of the cecum and colon.

Ladd's bands and the Ladd procedure are named after American pediatrician William Edwards Ladd (1880-1967).^[1]

References

↑ Nancy Tkacz Browne (2007). Nursing care of the pediatric surgical patient. Jones & Bartlett Learning. pp. 334–. ISBN 978-0-7637-4052-8. Retrieved 2 August 2010.

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Eponymous medical signs for digestive system and abdomen

Digestive system

GI tract	Goodsall's rule Chilaiditi syndrome intussusception: Dance's sign Lockwood's sign appendicitis: Aaron's sign Arapov's sign (contracture) Dunphy sign Markle sign McBurney's point Rosenstein's sign Rovsing's sign Sherren's triangle Aure-Rozanova's sign Alder's sign pancreatitis Mallet-Guy sign Radiologic signs: Hampton's line Klemm's sign

Accessory	liver: Councilman body Mallory body biliary: Boas' sign Courvoisier's law Charcot's cholangitis triad/Reynolds' pentad cholecystitis (Murphy's sign Lépine's sign) Nardi test

Abdominopelvic

Peritoneum	Blumberg sign Rigler's sign Cupola sign

Hernia	Howship–Romberg sign Hannington-Kiff sign

Other	Fothergill's sign Carnett's sign

Abdominal

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