A 9-year-old girl has crashed into her neighbor's brick fence while riding her bike and is brought to the emergency department Chapter 5 Abdomen 235 236 BRS Gross Anatomy with a great deal of abdominal pain. Her radiogram and angiogram show laceration of the superior mesenteric artery immediately distal to the origin of the middle colic artery. If collateral circulation is discounted, which of the following organs may become ischemic?

(A) Descending colon
(B) Duodenum
(C) Pancreas
(D) Ascending colon
(E) Transverse colon


Ans: (D) Ascending colon

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