What Does Cecopexy Mean in Medical Terms?

Medical Definition of cecopexy
: a surgical operation to fix the cecum to the abdominal wall.

How is Cecopexy?

Cecopexy was done by suturing the cecum and the ascending colon under a flap of parietal peritoneum expressly created with interrupted absorbable sutures.

What causes mobile cecum?

Failure of right colonic mesentery to fuse to the lateral peritoneum may lead to an unattached cecum and ascending colon that causes it to be highly mobile [5]. Other reason for mobile cecum is long floppy mesentery fixed to the retroperitoneum by a narrow base of origin [5].

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