Ladd's bands

• (William Ladd, American physician)
• adhesions running from the caecum across the duodenum to the parietal peritoneum in the right hypochondrum (below ribs) which may obstruct the second part of the duodenum seen in intestinal malrotation.
• They are surgically divided

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Anatomy review: Regions of the Thorax and Abdomen: 9 regions.

• Right hypochondriac region - below ribs.
• Epigastric region - above the stomach.
• Left hypochondriac region.
• Right lumbar region - inward curve of spine.
• Umbilical region - umbilicus is the navel.
• Left lumbar region.
• Right iliac region - hip bone.
• Hypogastric region - below stomach.
• Right iliac region.