It is also known as sulci paracolic and paracolic recesses.
Paracolic gutter fluid ultrasound.
Providers can use ultrasound to detect peritoneal free fluid and guide procedures like paracentesis.
Etiologically it means a channel adjacent to the abdominal wall.
Left paracolic gutter inferior to spleen.
Although ultrasound is sensitive to detect small amounts of peritoneal free fluid it cannot accurately differentiate types of peritoneal free fluid.
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Between the outer wall of the colon and back side of the abdominal wall there is an open space known as the paracolic gutter.
Ultrasound is variably sensitive depending on the size of the patient and the operator.
Collections of peritoneal free fluid appear black or anechoic on ultrasound imaging.
In thin patients relatively small volume of fluid can be found.
It is the depression between the postero lateral wall of the abdomen and the lateral margins of the ascending and descending colon.
4 in paracolic gutter.