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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