The anterior abdominal wall of a 21-year-old woman impacts the steering wheel during a head-on car collision. The blunt trauma resulted in a lacerated pancreas with digestive enzyme spilling anterior. Which of the following locations would initially receive the contents of the lacerated pancreas?

(A) Supracolic part of greater peritoneal sac
(B) Infracolic part of greater peritoneal sac
(C) Subhepatic space
(D) Omental bursa
(E) Subphrenic space


Ans: (D) Omental bursa

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